Assignment #1 -- Profiling

While trying to determine who would be a good subject for a profiling exercise, I came up with my three best options that seemed to be somewhat interesting. While I know we are not "supposed" to chose a family member, my mother has had a tough road in her life, something I am quite seperated from. She was born with the birth effect, spinal bifida, where her spinal column was not fully developed. At the time her mother was told that she would never live. When she did live, her mother was then told that she would never walk. When she did walk, and run like a normal child, she was then told that she would never have children. But 25 years later, she is now the mother of two healthy children. However, the past ten years of her life have been nothing but surgery after surgery. This is something I am still not quite sure about.
Next, there is Bob Eastman, a Vietnam Veteran from Kingston, New Hampshire. Bob is a painter who has used his time serving our country to benefit him. He uses paint to express his as well as other peoples experiences across seas in ways that can be seen as healing. One of his best paintings hangs in the Kingston VFW where it depicts the major wars the united states has been involved with in one landscape drawing.
Then, there is Richard Pedato, a 22 year old who was born deaf and was the first to receive a surgery to enhance his hearing. While Richard can now hear, he also has endured over a hundred head and brain surgeries and still struggles with the devices today. But thanks to the doctors who took a risk in doing this surgery, Richard can now hear the voices of his two little boys, Anthony and Ayden.