Melissa had always been reliant on “planning” to determine her own destiny. She planned a successful business with her husband Dean Pollman; and together, they built a blended but “perfect” family, having four beautiful kids, and what seemed like the perfect life—going on camping trips, boating, and skiing in the winter—in Salem, Oregon. But seldom, if ever, is life always perfect, for it has a way of throwing curveballs when you least expect them. For the Pollmans, that curveball came in the form of a rare children’s disease which their youngest daughter Haley, now 11, began to suffer from at age 8. Haley’s first symptoms took the form of eyesight problems. “Dean’s family has pretty poor eyesight,” Melissa told The Epoch Times. “So we weren’t alarmed. We were just like, ‘Oh, we better get her into the eye doctor, and she probably needs glasses, no big deal.’” As her eyesight got worse, her …