Ep. 3: Dale Hill, President of the CCBIB

The Blind Chick · Sep 8, 2021 · 21m

The week on Aftersight, Penn talks with Dale Hill, who talks us through his life and his experience with Bardet-Biedl syndrome, an inherited disease causing progressive loss of night and peripheral vision from retinitis pigmentosa. BBS can also cause a number of other symptoms and problems including: obesity, extra fingers and toes, kidney disease, and developmental disabilities. Dale is lively, and he talks us through his start in Washington State, his move to Colorado, his education, his slow loss of vision, his struggles with finding employment, and his eventually becoming Vice President…