TOLEDO, Ohio - This is the motivational and inspiring news you needed today: Jalen Ballard, who is legally blind, graduated as valedictorian at St.
Francis de Sales High School in Toledo, Ohio, and now he’s going to college on a scholarship. RELATED: High school senior with compromised immune system surprised by drive-by graduation parade Ballard was born with Bilateral Microphthalmia and had cataracts removed from his eyes when he was just three months old.
He continued to deal with glaucoma for most of his life, according to WNWO. The college-bound graduate was able to see shapes and colors when he started his high school journey, but a major bleed in his right eye compromised his vision so much so that he can only see light and dark.