BlindSide

Charlie was born with sight, and after a while he fell down stairs and he began so lose his sight then doctors found out that he had a brain tumour the size of an orange. The tumour had been crushing his optic nerve which connects he eyes to his brain. He had to have six surgery's to have it removed and when that was done he was completely blind. His family never thought t hat he could play football but he went out for the seventh grade football team and made it. He gets help from the coaches and other players in practice, and during the games the "zebras" help him out to. During some games his opponents would not even be able to tell if he is blind. He hits just as hard as everyone else on the field if not harder. When he asked his grandfather if he could go beyond playing football at the high school level he said that it would be almost impossible to do so. Charlie says that his greatest fear is getting his sight back, because when he went blind he now sees the world as a perfect place and getting his sight back would crush his perfect world. He also said that don't use a disability as a crutch use it to get up and run.