Brian McKeever, a Canadian cross-country skier and 10-time paralympic games gold medalist lives with the progressive macular condition, Stargardt’s disease. McKeever was diagnosed when he was 18 and remembers clearly the day he found out. “The optometrist said, ‘It’s really strange, I can’t get your eyes any better with lenses’. I knew exactly what it was because my Dad and Aunt both have Stargardts.I was referred to an ophthalmologist and we did some blood tests and realised I was a carrier for the same dominant gene.”
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