(NAPSI)—Joan Creviston was an interior designer for 12 years before retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye disease that leads to tunnel vision and sometimes complete blindness, forced her to make a full-time career out of her longtime love: fitness instruction.
Creviston, of Aurora, Illinois, is a master-level personal trainer and group exercise instructor who also offers coaching and videos through her website. In addition to starting the new year with a vow to lose 10 pounds in six weeks—“I’ve joined the resolutionists,” she says-she signed up for the free reading program of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS).
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