Canadian Family Travel Globally before Their Children Lose Their Sight

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Canadian couple Edith and Sebastian Peltaire. They have three sons and a daughter. When their daughter Mia was just three years old, they noticed that their daughter was suffering from vision problems.

A few years after she was first taken to a specialist, Mia was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in her eyes. Retinitis pigmentosa is a rare genetic disease; over time causes the patient to lose vision or become completely visually impaired.

That is, if a person is infected with this disease in childhood, then there is a possibility of losing his eyesight completely in middle age. At one point, the 12-year-old couple had similar symptoms with their two sons, Colin (now 7 years old) and Laurent ( 5).

In 2019, their fears came true, and the doctor confirmed that the two boys had similar genetic problems. However, their other son Leo, 9, is still healthy.

There is currently no cure or effective treatment to slow down retinitis pigmentosa, says Edith. “It’s a disease that you can’t really do with it.

“We don’t know how quickly this disease will go. But we fear that they will go completely blind in middle age.

For Fealing Visual Memory

Canadian Family Travel Globally Before Their Children Lose Their Sight — Photo: Collected

The couple once saw the news. There they learn that something like this needs to be instilled in their memory before they become blind; Which they will need on the way for the rest of their lives. Then they focus on helping their children build skills.

Mia’s specialist doctor advised her to keep immersed in visual memory. So that even if he loses his vision in the middle of his age, he can discover himself in the middle of it in his imagination. There is only one way to implement this doctor’s advice for children. It’s about going out on a world tour with your children.

“I thought I wouldn’t show him a picture of an elephant painted in the book. I’ll take him to show him the real elephant. And I now want to fill his memory with the best, most beautiful pictures.

Then they started planning to travel the world for a year with their children. Before becoming parents of the child, the couple traveled to different countries several times, but this time it becomes a little difficult for them to roam around with their children throughout the year.

Sebastian Pelletaire worked in a financial institution. He said, “We also have a financial crisis in addition to running the treatment. There’s a lot to do at home. But there’s nothing better than traveling.

“The trip will not only be enjoying the scenery, but also the experience of meeting different types of cultures and people.

Later they started saving up for world travel. Sebastian also owned shares in the company he worked for. Later, he sold it and got a huge amount of money. Lime also works in a healthcare company. “It was like a small gift from life. For example, here’s the money for your trip.

The six-member family was scheduled to embark on a world tour in July 2020. They made deep plans to go to Russia by land and spend time in China from there.

But due to the restrictions of the coronavirus epidemic, they were forced to postpone the trip. Over and over again, they changed their travel plans. They finally left Montreal in March this year. “We actually left Montreal without any kind of schedule,” Lim said.

“We had an idea of where we wanted to go. But we plan to go. Maybe a month ago. ’

Edith Lemme-Sebastian Pelletair couple made a list of where to go before going out on a trip. According to Lim, Mia wanted to ride a horse. And Laurent wanted to sit on the camel’s back and drink fruit juice.

They set out on a trip to Namibia. There they approach elephants, zebras, and giraffes. From there, they flew to Zambia and Tanzania and then to Turkey. He traveled to Turkey for about a month. The Canadian family moved from Turkey to Mongolia and later to Indonesia.

Sebastian Pelletaire said, “We are mainly focusing on sightseeing. We are also paying a lot of attention to animals and plants. We have also seen incredible animals in Africa, Turkey, and other places.

According to data from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health in the United States, the symptoms of retinitis pigmentosa usually begin to manifest in childhood, and most people eventually lose their eyesight.

However, their three children Mia, Colin, and Laurent are still hoping that they will not lose their eyesight in the end. No matter what happens to their children in the future, they are preparing from now on. They are preparing them in the same way so that the children can also deal with the issue well.

Sebastian Pelletier said, “Hopefully, science will find a solution. That’s why we’re praying. But we know they can go blind. So we want to make sure that our children are ready to face this challenge.