Woman Sentenced To Prison For Feigning Blindness To Defraud The VA

Also, being a former Corrections Officer in prison is going to be interesting for her....

SSG(P) (Join to see) Guess nobody thought to toss a stress ball at her forehead. Case denied before it gets started.

MSG Mark Million - Before I had my lasix surgery, I served in the army technically legally blind without corrective lenses. Since my glasses and contacts did correct my vision back to 20-20 I was allowed to serve. I had special inserts in my gas mask, extra pairs of glasses in case one broke etc. What the article doesn't state is if she used corrective lenses to bump her vision up to a 20-40 status. Not that it makes much differences as she's claiming blindness inaccurately, but if she was like me and legally blind without correction, then there's not much need to "fake" it. It's the lying that is at the heart of the matter. I know first hand how it feels to be "blind." I've been there. Right before my lasik surgery, I was not able to walk through my house without my glasses on. If I dropped my glasses, I'd have to search on my hands and knees to find them. I'm not defending the woman, but since the article doesn't provide the info, we don't know if she's already legally blind without correction. As she's the one who lied to begin with, her vision records are suspect anyway. But if she was "legally blind" before correction, all she had to do was lie during each eye test that her vision was improved by the lens choices the eye Dr used. As someone who can truly claim to have been almost legally blind, this woman's claims make me mad. As long as I had access to corrective lenses, I'm able to work and be a productive member of society. But at one point, as SSG Unger stated, throw a stress ball at my head without my glasses, and I'd not see it until 2 inches before it hit me.

SPC Anna Larson - Since the article says that she had multiple driver licenses from multiple states (all of which require a vision test) and none of them had any restrictions on them, I don't think she was legally blind.

SSG(P) (Join to see) - I could pass a vision test with glasses/contacts any day of the week. You don't know if she had worse vision because it wasn't mentioned. She could have passed a vision test with contacts. Plus if you've seen NM's vision test, you'd laugh. You stick your head in the googles and read a line. As long as you can read that line, you pass. I know. I live here and just had to take that test last year. The question is really if she's 20-40 uncorrected, or 20-40 corrected. The article didn't state. I used to be 20-600+ in both eyes uncorrected, but correctable to 20-20. My brother-in-law is also legally blind uncorrectable. My mother was legal blind correctable. I have quite a bit of experience with legally blind correctable or not. If she went into get a license with contact lenses and didn't report them to the DMV, she could easily have gotten away without the "restrictions" on her license. Which means she could have also lied to the DMV. Quite possible since she lied to the VA also. There isn't enough information in that article to determine.
Either way, she lied. I'm just saying that if she's had "correctable" legal blindness, she wouldn't have had to fake anything, all she had to do would be to take out her contacts and she'd be "believable."