re: Usher syndrome - prevalent with the Acadian French

The two carriers don’t have to be close relations. Of the same ancestry perhaps.

I had a neighbor with this when we were all late 20s. My wife and I would go places with he and his wife. At not even 30, he wore hearing aids is each ear and had vision trouble in dimly lit rooms. He was legally blind, if the restaurant was dark one of us would have to lead him to the restroom door. His vision and hearing only declined from there.

A lot of folks in Louisiana that will make jokes about this would be shocked to learn they carry the gene.

When you’re 20 Bud Lites deep and the band starts playing “Matilda,” shite gets primal. Things happen.