Nov. 28, 2024
Cuddling on the couch with her dog, Ducky, no one would notice that anything is different about Ashley King. Even when she walks across the living room, she doesn’t miss a step. But the 32-year-old has gotten used to functioning with only two per cent vision.
“It’s the hardest thing that I’ve ever had to go through in my life,” said King.
She wasn’t born this way.
A trip of a lifetime 13 years ago with friends turned into an unimaginable life sentence for King.
“I was in Bali on a 35-day trip, and on my last night, we decided to go for some drinks,” she explained.
“I went out to a bar that was recommended in the Lonely Planet travel guidebook. It was a very big, westernized establishment night club that you would expect to go and have drinks.”