in fact, asseneth was a cheerleader at school, too.ut something called a visual perception disability was making school work impossible. >> the words distort, as if you would pour water on the paper. they swirl, they wave, they come off the paper, they grow, they compress. it's hard. >> reporter: thanks to telemedicine, asseneth was able to get ongoing treatment without ever leaving school. >> and with my disability, missing 2 hours, 2 1/2 hours of school is not -- is not what i needed. and then i'd come back and i'd be ten times behind. having the telemedicine here at the school, you come here, you talk, you do what you have to do, and you're back in class in 30 minutes and it's like you never left. >> reporter: another advantage to telemedicine was revealed when hurricane ike hit the area. >> the hospital was shut down. but as soon as we had internet access and as soon as we had phone access, we made access with our clients. >> reporter: one of those patients was asseneth, who had relocated to another town after her home was destroye