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EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) - An East Syracuse woman went blind before she turned 30, and she turned what was once one of the worst time of her life into material for motivational speaking.

Diabetes not only took Monica Johnsons sight in 2002 it made her bedridden with nerve damage.

My first words that I had uttered were my life is over and Ill never be able to do anything ever again and that's it my life is over, she said.

She was a manager at a store at Destiny and a horse trainer before she went blind, and she was worried she would not have the same opportunities again.

I had gone from being totally sighted and working all sorts of jobs and opportunities to just to losing my sight. It started getting dark it was almost like a dimmer switch and things just starting a darker little by little by little. Over a six month period of time, on Feb. 9th I woke up and that was that was the last time I had saw daylight, Johnson said.

She said she had to move in with her parents and went into a deep depression.

Johnson said one day, she had a feeling that there is so much more to life than laying in bed and doing nothing.

Today, she lives on her own and travels the country as a motivational speaker.

She says there is no way she should be doing all she does today without the help of Aurora Central New York, an organization that helps both the vision and hearing impaired.

If youd like to get in contact with Monica Johnson, you can reach her at visionwithnosight@gmail.com.

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