South China Morning Post
3rd December 2024
You have a disease that will make you blind. How do you prepare to lose a key function?
Hong Kong resident Cheng Kwok-kwong, who has degenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa, is getting ready for when his vision fails.
By Sasha Gonzales
How would you react if you learned that one day you would lose an important bodily function – your hearing or mobility, say, or your sight?
Although he did not know until he was in his thirties, Hong Kong resident Cheng Kwok-kwong was born with an eye condition known as retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
This rare inherited disease causes progressive vision loss as cells in the light-sensitive retina at the back of the eye slowly degenerate.
It usually leads to night blindness and tunnel vision, and eventually blindness.
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