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Living a normal life in the face of debilitating disease

For the second year in a row, the patients of Dr. Little and Dr. Schmidt's Vision Source donated over $450 towards the annual Walk for MS. Little and Schmidt then wrote a matching check for $450. Over $900 was donated to the National MS Society for the second year in the row. Lauren Little (right) receives the check from her father, Dr. Little. Submitted photo

By Brian L. Gray

Lauren Little considers herself lucky.

Born and raised in Mandan, Little was working in 2007 as a third grade teacher in Las Vegas, Nev., when she started having bad headaches. Soon after that began, a small black spot appeared in her left eye, which wouldn’t go away.

Little was in Mandan for a family reunion at the time the spot appeared, so she went to her father, Dan Little, an eye doctor, to have the spot looked at. Continue…