Super Bowl ad
I don't watch the Super Bowl, but I do sometimes look up the ads on Youtube. This year there was an ad by Toyota that was about Brian McKeever, a Canadian cross-country skier and biathlete who has the same juvenile-onset degenerative eye disease that I have - Stargardt disease. It's a pretty rare condition and I've never seen it depicted before on film. Maybe this will help people understand what it's like.
posted by crystal | 7:34 PM
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Wow, amazing that he could do that after having lost most of his vision. I hope someday they can find a cure.
I read some about him - he had been skiing since he was three years old. His vision didn't start to deteriorate until he was about 20. Maybe he was so confident in skiing by then, he could continue with his brother's help. I went cross country skiing once. I kept falling over ;)
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