Light after darkness

In 1970 Trudy McCullagh’s son, Darren, was born frighteningly premature, a full three months before his due date. Little Darren was strong, however, and in time the doctors told Trudy the pair would be able to make the journey home. But there had been complications. “Before I could take him home from the hospital, we were given the news,” she says. Darren was going blind.

“Since then, I’ve been able to say, if only he was only blind,” Trudy adds, because that diagnosis was just the beginning.

Photos from Darren’s early