When I was about 4 months old (in February 2003), my parents noticed a squint in my right eye and took me to various ophthalmologists, but they said that my parents should see me again when I was 2 years old, as the squint could not be treated at such a young age. When my parents discovered a white pupil on flash photos of me at the end of 2003, they urged my ophthalmologist to refer me to a university clinic. Fortunately, everything went relatively quickly after that: after an appointment at the University Hospital in Giessen in mid-January, we were referred to the University Hospital in Essen with a suspected diagnosis of retinoblastoma, where we were given an appointment for an examination just two days later, which confirmed the diagnosis. Three days later, on January 29, 2004, the enucleation was performed, which fortunately went without complications. The DNA results at the time showed a non-hereditary unilateral retinoblastoma, which made my parents breathe a sigh of relief, as did the fact that my twin brother Luke did not carry the degenerated gene and would therefore remain “unharmed”. From then on, I learned to live with one eye, ball games are still a bit difficult at times, but I’m getting better at table tennis 😉 I always found the visits to my ocularist at the Müller & Söhne Institute in Wiesbaden, initially every three months and then every six months, to be really great, because I could go on an outing with my mom or dad all by myself, sometimes without my twin brother.