Edith and Sebastian, a Canadian couple, dreamed of a happy family and already had four children. The couple lived a happy life with their children until they discovered that three of the children had a rare disease that caused gradual vision deterioration until they lost it.

When the eldest daughter, Mia, who is now 12 years old, was three years old, her mother noticed that she bumped into walls and furniture while moving around the house, especially at night.

After four years of tests and analyses, the mother discovered 

In 2019, Mia's two younger brothers, Colin, 7, and Lauren, 5, were diagnosed with the same symptoms, and only Leo, 9, survived.

Edith explains in an interview with the BBC that she and her husband decided to accept their children's illness and look at the matter positively, and they also wanted the children to see this disease as a challenge that would make them strong, and not as a problem that stopped their lives at the beginning.   

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The family thought of innovative solutions to deal with the children's illness, so it thought of creating new visual memories for them before they completely lost their sight, so the couple took their children on a trip around the world, so that the children would acquire more coping skills.

Mother Edith says that the budget for the trip around the world was not available at first, but the money was available in an unexpected way when husband Sebastian sold some of the shares he owned in a company in Canada.

Eddie explains