Your health checkup | your health checkup: sights for hope | episode 12

Your health checkup | your health checkup: sights for hope | episode 12


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Capital Blue Cross is a prd supporter of your health checkup. Don't think it's going in e Styrofoam, but whatever. Dorothy Montoro is one of w ladies who gather at Sitesr hope,


formerly the Center r Vision Loss to Craft. Wow. I'm trying to figure out we to put this last part. Our making my floral arrangement and I don't hae literally and figurativelya


good eye for this, she saye Allentown Center gives hera new outlook on life after losing her sight. I'm the victimf domestic abuse. I was shot in the face, was shot twice, but the one


ony face caused the injury. I left my prosthetic and my right eye has very minimal visio. When I look straight aheadI have no center of vision because there was a lot of scarring after the


injury. The Easton resident is juse of many clients who take pt in the social programs yea. The Braille classes, the cooking classes. I do the crafts. I'm not a crafty person ei, but I


do crafts. This is when I do them bece when I'm he I don't do the. We have skills education programs which include life skills, education, technicl skills, education. We also do


some of the sofr skills that are important n everyday life. Executive Director Dennis Zeiner says most clients oe had normal sight and now mt relearn many skills with tr vision impairment


and weree all about the personal victories for someone. victory is being able to d the newspaper. For some it's going to be e to talk to their grandchil, resume whatever it is thats


most important to them, whatever independence meanr them. We're here to help guide te way you can do just about anything you just have to t differently. Sites for Hope has location


Allentown and Stroudsburg r PBS39. I'm Brittany Sweeney your health checkup is brought o you by the generous supporf Capital Blue Cross more information at Capital Blue