Cure Blindness Australia

23 October 2019

I had to eat dinner in the dark recently, and it was harder than I thought it would be. Danielle Verhoeven, from the Blue Mountains, has a rare condition—Usher syndrome—which causes hearing loss and progressive blindness. At 41, she still has some useful central vision. She works as a telephone triage nurse and is mum to a four-year-old. In spite of her challenges, Danielle feels she has been lucky and she wanted to raise some money for Cure Blindness Australia. Our job during dinner was to see what it was like to eat a meal with little vision or no vision a

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