00:00So apparently if doctors tell you that you have one year before you go blind, you do what any normal
00:05person would do.
00:06You book a one-way ticket to a random village in Nepal.
00:09Growing up, my vision was drastically worsening over time.
00:13And so I went into the eye doctor and they took a look at my eyes.
00:16We did a lot of exams, a lot of testing, and they told me that I had a year until
00:23I would completely lose my eyesight
00:25because of how extreme my myopia is, which is like I have extreme nearsightedness.
00:31And they also noticed that there was a lot of thinning in the back of my retina.
00:35And so I didn't have basically any options at that point.
00:39And that moment kind of shifted my whole mindset.
00:45And I was like, why do I have to live in fear of what's going to come?
00:50And I decided, hmm, what if I chose to live my dream life, what I've always wanted to do now?
00:58And so my first decision was to book a one-way ticket to Nepal at 19 years old and live
01:04in a remote mountain village for three months by myself.
01:07And I was the only English speaker in the village.
01:09And that completely shifted my whole perspective on life.
01:13Now it's been three years since that doctors told me that.
01:17But I actually just got amazing news just two days ago.
01:21I went to see the eye doctors again, and they told me that I may be eligible for LASIK now,
01:27which could save my vision.
01:30Being able to experience it all, the good and the bad, like herding yaks with nomadic shepherds in Kyrgyzstan
01:36or being stuck in a cave for three days and surviving to tell the tale.
01:42I wake up every day and I'm like, wow, I can see.
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