SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 — Being shot in both eyes and completely blinded didn’t stop Zion Ricks-Gaines from skateboarding. It made him want to do it even more.
He was hit twice. One bullet destroyed his right eye; the other smashed the socket around his left, puncturing the eyeball and leaving it deflated and withered.There was a long stretch in the hospital and he was fitted for a prosthetic eye. “When I approach a new obstacle, I usually feel it out with my cane, or ask friends what they see, how it’s set up, what should I try to look out for.It helps that with seven years of skating, a lot of what his body needs to do is muscle memory, he says.Though fall he does.“I fall now more than I used to, but it’s not from skating.
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