With his approval we wanted to get going to get the thing made so his story could be told before it was too late. So it really gave us the impetus to get off our arses and actually do something. We thought obviously it would be important to sit Matt down and get him talking about his whole life. We decided to follow him around for a while. After getting some footage together we decided to send it to Australia Story.
Retino blastoma takes away eyesight.
Unfortunately it tends to revisit you in middle age. And it has done that to me and over the last ten or twelve years there s been a constant battle over the tumours that retino blastoma causes. Unfortunately towards the middle and the end of last year it was becoming fairly obvious that the right leg would have to go to attempt to stop the advance of the tumour. It was a huge decision obviously. A blind person without mobility is a very very difficult thing.