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Can a kid with really bad eyesight play football?
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Posted By: XanaX on 2008-07-19

My boy, Eddie, is seven years old.  He has retinitis pigmentosa and gradually worsening decreasing vision.  His vision without glasses is 20/200 and best corrected is 20/60.  He does pretty well with baseball, especially after he had the bilateral rectus recession surgery and now both eyes are working together.


Tomorrow, however, is supposed to be football sign-ups, and I've been going back and forth about getting him involved or not.  He's not all the way sure if he wants to do it either.  I talked to some moms today, and they explained to me how grueling this five-day course of "conditioning" is.  They described to me that most kids throw up from being overworked and go home crying.  Doesn't sound like the best way for me to spend $45.  He's not the toughest kid on the block, or any block for that matter, and I really don't know which way to go here.  Any advice, football moms?



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