Experimental therapy prevents Weertenaar from going blind

In daily life, there are things Knowledge has to take into account because of his eye disease. “Especially in the evenings and in the winter when it gets dark earlier, but I can still live independently, do my job 100 percent, do sports and travel.” De Weertenaar would still be allowed to drive a car in the dark, but he no longer does so to protect himself and others. “Something will happen and there are more things that I have to take into account. For example, if I go to a cafe in the evening, I mainly go to bars that I know: there I know where the bar and the toilet are” , he explains. And he also goes out by bike in the evening, mainly in Weert. “I’ve come up with some tricks for myself, so it’s not like I stay home as soon as it gets dark. It’s just a bigger challenge when I go out, I have to prepare it well in my head. For example, I always make a wider turn on my bike so that I don’t hit a curb and I cycle from lamppost to lamppost.” He also now goes on a ‘summer holiday’ more often in October or November to a part of the world where it is longer light.