Just Watching TV

Holding the remote and pressing buttons to change the channels on your Television set is something you do in your pass time or when there’s a much-awaited television show or a live event that you badly want to follow. The act is not considered to be life changing in any way and no one even expects to stumble upon something that would change their lives while simply switching through the channels. Having said that, Joy happened to bump into something extraordinary while she was watching television. Their lives were about to change…

A TV Show…

Joy had learned to adapt and cope-up accordingly with Gene’s disability and she had never expected things to be any different as Stargardt’s disease is deemed incurable. It was one day when Joy was watching TV in her leisure time and she happened to stumble upon the Rachel Ray show. So what was it about this show that piqued Joy’s interest? The host of the show named Ray had called a person with Stargardt’s disease on the stage and they did something that left Joy baffled.

Technology Helping People

What were they up to and what was it that had made Joy dumbstruck. In that particular episode, the host Ray was offering help to a person who was suffering Stargardt’s disease, the same disability that her husband has had for almost 15 years. They claimed about having a technology which could help people suffering from this disease by restoring their vision back to almost normal.

Writing Her Story

Joy was glued to her TV screen during the whole show and she was simply amazed by what she was getting to witness. She was absolutely dazzled by the thought of her husband being able to see again and enjoy life to its fullest. After the show ended, Joy was contemplating what would be the best thing to do and she decided to write a letter to Ray regarding her husband.

Crying Happy Tears

Joy poured her heart out in the letter she wrote to Ray. She wrote, “ I began shaking and crying for the next hour or more at the thought of my husband being able to see my face for the first time, to see our son for the first time.” The family was now anxiously waiting for Ray’s reply and they were taken aback by what Ray had to say.

Ray Replies

The element that misses the most in a reality show is ironically “reality” itself. What if the stunt that Ray and the woman suffering from Stargardt’s disease had pulled on the show was scripted? What was this device that could help people suffering from this disease? Just when all these questions were surfacing in the head of Joy and Gene, they received a reply from Ray that left them astonished and cleared their doubts.