Costa Mesa's Jimmy Vivar sees a bright future ahead
Print Vivar means “to live” in Spanish, and Jimmy Vivar has done plenty of living in his quarter-century on this Earth. Vivar, a Costa Mesa resident, was born with an degenerative eyesight condition called Retinitis pigmentosa. He has very little sight, a field of vision that’s like a pinhole, and extreme difficulty seeing at night. He usually walks with a cane. “Sometimes people ask for percentages,” Vivar said. “I don’t exactly know what the percentage of vision would be, but I do have problems with peripheral vision. Playing sports or Frisbee would be hard, seeing things from...
Source: latimes.com