Bright Outlook

Health & Fitness cover story for The Commercial Appeal.

December 22, 2008

Lynette Herman stares into the middle distance while listening to a conversation, occasionally offering up information, correcting her husband’s memory or erupting with a sharp burst of laughter.

There is levity in those steel grey eyes, and something else: a malfunction that reaches to the cells lining the back inside wall of the eyes. The mutation of a gene reaching back to at least the turn of the last century … (read more)