This New York mother was determined to ensure her visually impaired son would have a great life. Gracie Benedith-Cane’s son, Wani, was two months old when she noticed something different about her baby in their Brooklyn home.
“I realized something was going on with his eyes when he was two months,” she told Today. “I took him to the doctor, and he told me that he wasn’t going to have 100 percent of his vision.”
He was diagnosed with septo-optic nerve dysplasia, a disorder affecting the development of optic nerves in the brain. The small size of the nerves disrupts their ability to send visual information to the brain, according to the U.S. Library of Medicine. It is a rare condition found in 1 out of every 10,000 live births, and the cause is unknown.