Ramona Pearson

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65 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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TED Radio Hour · Searching for paradise · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

But the men, they were going to make it fun for me.

So they were teaching me cuss word scrapple at night.

And then secretly, how to swear like a sailor.

So I'm going to just leave it to your imagination as to what my first words were.

And a former teacher who happened to have Alzheimer's took on the task of teaching me to write.

The redundancy was actually good for me.

So we'll just keep moving on.

One of the pivotal times for me was actually learning to cross the street again as a blind person.

So there were two obstacles I had to get through.

One was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Every time I approached the curb, I would panic.

And the second one was actually trying to figure out how to cross that street.

So one of the seniors just came up to me and she pushed me up to the corner and she said, when you think it's time to go, just stick the cane out there.

If it's hit, don't cross the street.

Made perfect sense.

But by the third cane that went whizzing across the road...

They realized that they needed to put their resources together, and they raised funds so that I could gain the skills to be a blind person and also to go get a guide dog, who transformed my life.

And I was able to return to college because of the senior citizens who invested in me and also the guide dog and the skills that I had gained.

Ten years later, I gained my sight back, not magically, and I opted in for three surgeries, and one of them was experimental.

The biggest change for me was looking down at my hands and seeing that I'd lost ten years of my life.

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