Caleb Conner, a 15-year-old sophomore at Stephen Decatur High School, was born to parents Robert and Sheri Conner at 25 weeks and weighed just one pound, 13 ounces. He spent the first 14 weeks of his life in the NICU, battling and overcoming many life-threatening setbacks, but the one obstacle he could not overcome robbed him of his sight.
Caleb suffers from retinopathy of prematurity, which has left him completely blind in his right eye and severely near-sighted in his left eye. With just vision in only one eye, Caleb has limited peripheral vision and no depth perception. His corrected vision is 20/200 and the prescription for his contact is -25. His field of vision is approximately five feet and beyond that small distance is a blurry world that Caleb is missing out on.
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thanks for sharing this Joe!
ReplyDeleteRemarkable young man, but I find it hard to believe that his family can't afford the 16,000 plus glasses to help their son. The boys parents are part owners/managers of a restaurant Ocean City and at one point they also owned a hotel that was in the family for multiple generations. It's nice the community wants to help out but shame on the family and the author of the article for extorting the public and withholding all the facts.
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