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Blindness leads to new career path for former Fla. medic

Jennifer Landmesser can no longer work as a paramedic, but she refuses to allow her disability the upper hand

Florida Today

INDIALANTIC, Fla. — Jennifer Landmesser’s blindness has helped others see the light.

A former paramedic at Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Landmesser was an avid sports enthusiast before loss of vision completely changed her life.

In 2000, Landmesser noticed her vision was bothering her. Specialist after specialist, test after test, drug after drug, and Landmesser still had no answers to her progressively deteriorating eyesight. Doctors diagnosed her condition as degenerative retinal disease.

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