Getting a new lease of life after blindness struck

The blind cobbler. Many are the challenges he encounters on a daily basis but he remains undeterred. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

In 2006, I started experiencing eye problems where both my eyes would water from time to time. Because this eye irritation would come and go on its own, I paid it no heed - treating it as something that would pass.

At the time, I was working as a matatu driver plying the Nakuru town and Langa Langa route and I had this mistaken belief that my line of work was contributing to the eye problem. I was a driver for nine years.