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    You Can't Take My Vision!: Finding Purpose Through the Pain: a Child’S Journey to Change the World
    You Can't Take My Vision!: Finding Purpose Through the Pain: a Child’S Journey to Change the World
    You Can't Take My Vision!: Finding Purpose Through the Pain: a Child’S Journey to Change the World
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    You Can't Take My Vision!: Finding Purpose Through the Pain: a Child’S Journey to Change the World

    By Nikki Fontenot and Maci Fontenot

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    This book tells her story.
    Her goal in sharing her story is to make a difference in the lives of others. To remind us that we dont have to be perfect to be amazing, that our differences make us unique and unique is beautiful and powerful.
    Maci is also on a journey to raise awareness to find a cure for the blind to see again. She is partnering with the Texas Childrens Hospital Optical Glioma Research team and donating proceeds from this book to research. (Her goal is to visit all 50 states to market her book.)
    Since she now wears glasses, Maci also wants to start her own glasses design company to make fun, special glasses for all ages, and to give glasses to those who cant afford them.
    After her surgery, Maci lived her dream of meeting the Jonas Brothers, thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Now, she raises thousands of dollars each year to send more children with terminal or life-threatening illnesses on the trip of a lifetime. How? Shes created a festival fundraiser called MaciFest in her hometown, with amazing success.
    Today Maci is part of the solution, and that keeps purpose in her heart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateSep 12, 2012
    ISBN9781477265277
    You Can't Take My Vision!: Finding Purpose Through the Pain: a Child’S Journey to Change the World
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    Nikki Fontenot

    Maci Fontenot is an amazing 8-year-old girl who is making a positive difference in the world. Maci was diagnosed with an optical glioma at the age of 4; a tumor growing through her left optic nerve had slowly taken her vision in her left eye. Today, after surgery and chemotherapy, the tumor is gone—and Maci is determined to make good things come from something that didn’t seem so good—to make a difference.

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      Book preview

      You Can't Take My Vision! - Nikki Fontenot

      You Can’t Take My Vision!

      Finding Purpose Through the Pain:

      A Child’s Journey To Change the World

      Nikki and Maci Fontenot

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2012 Nikki and Maci Fontenot. All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

      or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 10/04/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-6526-0 (sc)

      978-1-4772-6527-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012916040

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Cover photo by Nikki Fontenot

      Cover design and author photo by Mindy Schwarzauer, O’Carroll Group

      Edited by Peter O’Carroll, O’Carroll Group

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      Contents

      Chapter One August 2008

      Chapter Two Taking Texas Children’s Hospital by Storm

      Chapter Three Life on the Chemotherapy Train:

      Crazy Wigs and Concerts

      Chapter Four The Craniotomy

      Chapter Five Make-A-Wish and the Jonas Brothers

      Chapter Six Finding a Purpose

      Chapter Seven Business Woman by Age Seven

      To my beautiful daughter Maci,

      I hope you will always know that there is a special plan for your life (one that you have already started living). You are made to make a difference and I am so proud of who you are as a young lady. I am inspired by you and Ellie Kate to go out each day and use what I have been given to also make a difference. We are blessed, and I am proud of the way you continue to take the challenges you face and smile with determination. You are amazing!

      Mom

      Why did we write this book?

      Maci and I have been talking about this book for a while. It is part of making good things come from something that didn’t feel so good. It has been healing for all of us. If, by sharing our story, we help even one person—then we have made a difference that counts.

      When you have a purpose for the pain that you have been dealt, then you are more likely to go on victoriously. You can’t wait for things to happen for you; you must have a vision, even when half of your physical vision has been taken away.

      Maci is being proactive in making good things happen in her life, and also using this book to reach a goal. Her goal is to raise money to help find a cure for the blind to see again.

      This book is dedicated to all of the parents out there who fight for their children every day. Whether your child goes through a situation like this or not, we all work hard to raise our children and give them every opportunity to be their best. Situations are never to be compared, and neither are our children. Focusing on their strengths and talents, then guiding them to use who they are and what they have to make a difference is life-changing.

      Nikki Fontenot

      A Special Thank-You

      On behalf of our entire family I would like to say thank you to all of you who kept us, and especially Maci, in your prayers during this time. I learned how much prayer really works! There is no other explanation of how we kept walking as we were fighting for our daughter not just to be alive but for the quality of her life.

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