![]() Knighton received the diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease, on his eighteenth birthday. ![]() It was after conducting some on-line research that I discovered Cockeyed. I have also developed a sensitivity towards and activism on behalf of the blind and visually impaired. Since then I have lived my life by the eye doctor's adage "Never take your eyesight for granted". Twenty-two years ago I was given the dreadful news that I might lose all the sight in my left eye. ![]() On a personal note, in 1988 I lost the central vision in my left eye by toxoplasmosis, a diagnosis I still don't understand yet eye specialist after specialist told me the same thing. The subject of my latest book cuts close to home: Cockeyed: a memoir is Ryan Knighton's own story about his gradual loss of vision by retinitis pigmentosa. ![]()
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