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	<title>HollyAlonzo - Never Giving Up Hope</title>
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	<description>Deaf, Blind, And Determined</description>
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		<title>It Ain&#8217;t So Bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank God for the ability to adapt.  We can get through anything if we try hard enough—even if it seems like we can’t.
When I lost my vision, my hearing because stronger.  I believe everyone has this strong hearing, most just don’t use it.  With sight, you t end to tune out a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollyalonzo.com/03/414</link>
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		<title>Technology Is the Best!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past week, I have been playing with a new device. I am totally loving this!
An Agency for the deaf purchased me a DeafBlind Communicator. I can now make my own phone calls using TTY, do face to face conversations with people who can not sign, send and receive SMS text messaging, and do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollyalonzo.com/03/410</link>
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		<title>Good-Bye G-tube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning when I woke up, I was excited about today. I was finally going to have my g-tube removed!
I was not allowed to eat or drink anything after midnight last night. Usually, this means surgery. I had never heard of someone having surgery to have a g-tube removed, but maybe they weren’t starting to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollyalonzo.com/02/406</link>
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		<title>Swallow Study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday I went for a swallow study.  They have changed the test since I last had one in 2000.
Before, I only had to eat and drink while sitting between the technology so they could see my stomach.  But this time, I had to drink some slightly thicker than normal liquid while standing.  Then they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollyalonzo.com/02/401</link>
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		<title>I Hate This Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In American Sign Language, the sign for “snow”  is equal to saying “white rain” in English.  You take your dominant hand and place is flat on your chest.  Slowly pull your hand out away from your chest, at the same time closing your hand into a circle.  Then take the same hand and place it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollyalonzo.com/02/359</link>
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		<title>Next Round</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can not watch the show, which is tough on me.  American Idol was one of my favorite shows since it first came on.  
I have friends and family that watch it, and tell me what happened.  I guess last night there was a lot of drama.
It was group week.  Hope was in a group [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollyalonzo.com/02/356</link>
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		<title>Getting Better at This</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I am using a braille display full-time, and nothing else, I am getting better at operating the PC on my own again.
With speech, it was no problem  In fact, everyone came to me with computer problems because I could do almost everything on a computer that didn’t require vision.  When the hearing  started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollyalonzo.com/02/352</link>
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		<title>Uh&#8230;How&#8217;d That Happen?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow…I was just sitting here at my computer this morning typing an e-mail to my DB buddy in L.A.  I looked down and what do I see?
My trach is hanging there by the neck band.  The tube is all the way out of the hole.  Oh geez, what to do now?
I tried to stick it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollyalonzo.com/02/350</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m So Proud of Her</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Music is everywhere in my family. Seems that everyone either loves to sing and/or play music.
My niece is one who loves to sing, just like her Aunt Holly. As she got older, she got even better at it.
She decided to try out for American Idol this year. She made it to Hollywood.
Last night they showed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hollyalonzo.com/02/348</link>
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		<title>Yippee! I&#8217;m Home!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m finally home! They let me out of the hospital after 16 days.
This surgery was a huge success, even if there were complications. I feel so blessed. I have an excellent team of surgeons operating on me.
There are several truly amazing things about this whole experience that definitely show me that God was at work [...]]]></description>
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