AMHERST, N.Y. (WKBW) - Curt Krull had no vision problems until his late 40s. The Amherst man was working in a lumber yard, building things and cutting wood, when he noticed his sight slowly started to go.
“It was like looking in a tube in a tunnel. And everything started getting smaller and smaller. Like slowly turning the lights out on a dimmer,” he explained.
It turns out Curt had a degenerative eye condition, which caused him to slowly lose his sight. Not an easy thing for anyone , but especially for a man whose hobby, and living, depended on it.
“After 26 years I had to be let go, because of my eyesight. I had to retire early. I wasn’t ready for it,” he said. “I was only 49 at the time. And I wasn’t ready for that to happen. Didn’t expect that to happen.”...
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