A 66-year-old Baltimore woman is preparing to take on the world’s largest marathon even though she can no longer see the road ahead.
King was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare inherited disease that causes progressive vision loss. It began with trouble adjusting to dim light, then slowly narrowed her field of vision until, in 2024, she was declared legally blind.
But for Jackie King, seeing clearly has nothing to do with sight…