Ahmad Jaafil shares his story of extraordinary and persistent willpower, He  talks matter of factly about his severe  and rare eye disease and the horrendous struggle  to try and save his sight- in Lebanon and then the USA. If you want to know, in painful detail, what it's like for a  family to do everything and more to heal their young son, this episode will do that for you.

And it's also a story of

-  fierce determination and huge will 

- of a young man who went from being seen as "hopeless and weak" by his classmates to being named student of the year 

- of the power of acceptance of what is, but not of what can be

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