Life Stories #81: Nicole C. Kear

Nicole Kear was 19 when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that, at the time it was discovered, was chipping away at her peripheral and night vision and would, she was told, result in more and more loss of vision over the years. Your life is going to change dramatically, her doctor told her; start planning now. So, as she writes in her new memoir, Now I See You, she made a huge effort to keep her deteriorating eyesight a secret from all but those closest to her for years. We talk about why motherhood led her to abandon that strategy, why it was still difficult to fully embrace the situation... and what it's like now that the whole world knows.