'We're not alone': Utah's deaf-blind community meets to socialize, network, promote awareness

SALT LAKE CITY — Laura Rough's dream of becoming a nurse hatched while she was in high school.With Rough having been born with a severe hearing impairment, many people she knew believed her career goal was audacious. When her eyesight also began to deteriorate in her early 20s, that chorus of doubts grew."That fact that people said to me I couldn't be a nurse gave me the drive to say, 'I'm going to show you, I'm going to do it,'" Rough says. "And I did it."Rough is now a nurse of more than