More than a thousand students travel through the halls each day, but there’s only one who does it without knowing where his next step will take him. In a sea of the seeing, freshman Drew Sillman perseveres through a fight that few even notice.
Eight years ago, Drew’s world began to dim. His vision was getting progressively worse, and his parents, Mike and Cara Sillman, took him to numerous hospitals in an attempt to receive a diagnosis. Nobody knew what was happening. After countless appointments and tests, an answer finally presented itself.
“Drew was born a healthy, typical kid, hitting all his milestones,” Cara said. “Shortly after he turned six, at the end of kindergarten, we learned that he had rapidly become legally blind. In our pursuit to find out what was going on with his eyes, we received the devastating diagnosis of juvenile Batten disease.”…