He Went Blind Before High School. His Teacher Aide Thanks Him For 'Saving' Her
Graduating senior Cole Phillips lost his sight right before his freshman year. Rugenia Keefe was there to assist him in school. But, she says, Phillips was the one who got her through a dark time.
Just months before starting his freshman year of high school, Cole Phillips lost his vision to glaucoma.
When he entered Bentonville West High School in Arkansas in the fall of 2016, he met Rugenia Keefe — or, as Phillips calls her, "Miss Ru" — a paraprofessional who attended classes with Phillips for the next four years.
"As any normal teenager, you always get worried
