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Zach's Journey: A story of boyhood, bravery and blindness
Nonfiction » Relationships and Family » Children with special needs
Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Children’s health
Published by The Dallas Morning News
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Published: Feb. 14, 2012
Words: 7,984 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781466034037
Short description
Rapidly and surely, Zach Thibodeaux is going blind — the result of a condition called cone-rod dystrophy, a degenerative disease that is destroying the cells of his retina and for which there is no cure. At the age of 8, he’s coping with questions that are hard to imagine: How do you prepare for a life of blindness? What would you want to see? What would you do?Extended description
Rapidly and surely, Zach Thibodeaux is going blind — the result of a condition called cone-rod dystrophy, a degenerative disease that is destroying the cells of his retina and for which there is no cure. At the age of 8, he’s coping with questions that are hard to imagine: How do you prepare for a life of blindness? What would you want to see? What would you do?In this short story, follow his inspiring journey as he savors life with the sight he has left, learns to navigate the world in a new way and feels his family and community rally around him.
This book was originally published as a series of articles in The Dallas Morning News in 2011.
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