Child goes on 'bucket list' trip before he goes blind
As will also happen to two of his older brothers, 12-year-old Louis Corbett will one day be blind.
The three young New Zealanders have retinitis pigmentosa -- a progressive disorder that eventually deteriorates vision over the course of decades.
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Instructed to make something of an ocular bucket list -- things and places he'd like to see for the first, only and likely last time -- Louie picked places like the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, the Empire State Building and, in a sign of the times, Google headquarters in California.
But the thing Louie wanted to see the most with his own eyes wasn't a landmark or a national park; Louie wanted to take in a game, because like many young boys his age, Louie is a sports fan. But unlike most of his Kiwi peers who would favor nationally popular sports such as rugby and cricket, Louie's sport of choice is a bit out of the ordinary.
"For some reason he really got hooked on American basketball," his mom said. "He cares about nothing else. He is really quite passionate about it."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/02/health/blind-child-bucket-list/index.html
