Nick Silver began losing his sight as a child. He says people around him were nervous whenever he wanted to play sports: “You run a little slower, because you don’t want to injure yourself and make them have a heart attack.” OnlyAGameNPR
Nick Silver lives in St. Louis. He’s a 34-year-old small business owner with six kids. When he was young, he started losing his eyesight. He wasn’t allowed to play contact sports like soccer and basketball. Adults told him it was just too dangerous. Silver got teased — a lot.
“When you’re out there and the people around you are so scared for your safety, it kind of weighs you down.”His doctors said he could have a corneal transplant when he got older — an operation that would fix his eyesight. He says he was in denial until he was about 15, when local TV news did a segment on the Missouri School for the Blind.I knew it was coming on," Silver says."They kind of teased it that morning. I came from school and ran to the TV — and might have even set an alarm. I sat down. And the weather came on and I was like, ‘Come on! Come on!’ And so it finally came on, and I just was, like, starstruck.
This meant that when Silver graduated in 2005, he didn’t have anywhere to go. A school employee broke the rules and gave him a master key that unlocked the dorms. He found an empty room. It was comfortable — it had a bed and a TV — and he could walk to the grocery store. Silver stayed there about three months — until one day, he had to leave in a hurry.
"Sports, even in Arizona, still was a refuge, still a way for me to get out and run — run the dirt roads and get blasted by sand and dirt," Silver says."That got me real down," Silver says.Silver moved back to St. Louis and took a break from sports for a while. After a couple years, he thought about getting back into running. But by this time, his sight had deteriorated to the point that it wasn’t really safe for him to run alone.
"So late night I stumbled on a website called United in Stride, and I saw a profile of Quicksilver," Politte remembers. One of the first times they went running together, Silver told Politte that the most important thing for him to remember was that he wasn’t responsible for any accidents.And he emphasized that, ‘If ever I run into anything,’ he said, ‘it's not my guide's fault. I'm taking this risk. You do your best to describe,’"Politte remembers."‘Just take me to hospital and drop me off’ was, I think, his approach to it.
Nick Silver and Pierre Politte have been running and biking together for about a year. And Politte says, just like with any other relationship, they’ve gotten more comfortable with each other.
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