Danger! Contestant Andrew Miller came in third place on the Tuesday, October 8 episode, but he held his ground and personally triumphed over a severe visual impairment.
Bristol, Connecticut Auto Claims Adjuster Takes On Returning Champion Mark Fitzpatrick and Gino Montoya. Andrew finished with $4,183, a respectable score given that he was caught between two buzzsaws: Mark, who entered Final Jeopardy with $21,200, and Gino with $17,400 (the former won his third game for $58,000 total).
Most viewers were unaware of Andrew’s diagnosis because he did not share it with Ken Jennings during the show, but he talked about it and how welcoming the quiz show was in the Reddit thread for his episode.
“Andrés here!” -he began. “I haven’t seen it yet, but I just want to say that this was the best experience of my life. The team on set was amazing; I have vision problems and they made helpful adaptations to the game and were calm because I was hitting things with my stick all day.”
He also took the loss in stride, adding: “These were definitely not my categories, which made it easy to deal with the L knowing that my opponents had played so well on such a challenging board. GG Guys!
While Andrew didn’t detail exactly what adjustments the producers made for his recording, fans and peers praised him in the responses, with one writing, “You did great!” Opponent Gino chimed in to say, “Hi Andrew. Great game and I’m so glad I was there with you and Mark! I hope you are well and enjoying parenthood!
Andrew has X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP), an incurable genetic disease that eventually causes blindness in men and affects one in 15,000.
According beacon therapeutics, XLRP: “It begins with night blindness in early adolescence and gradually worsens, causing a narrowing of the peripheral field of vision. Most patients eventually become legally blind by age 40.”
Andrew is quite active in the R/RetinitisPigmentosa Reddit community; He previously described being diagnosed when he was 13, undergoing corrective surgery three years ago, and offering advice to others.
“I was diagnosed at age 13 and had mild symptoms like some night blindness and some loss of peripheral vision, but nothing crazy or anything that would stop me from driving or doing most things normally until I was about 25,” he wrote in a previous post.
“That’s when I ‘suddenly’ couldn’t drive at night anymore, I started to notice that I was stumbling a lot more, that I was missing handshakes, that I couldn’t catch a ball, that I was hitting people more, etc. That’s when things finally started to seem real and it hit me. “I couldn’t just ignore the diagnosis forever.”
He also shared his corrective surgery: “I already improved my vision from what it was before. I won’t be “cured” yet, but I definitely see much more clearly in all lighting conditions and don’t have as many problems with sensitivity and light adaptation. However, he wasn’t blind, so yes, restoring completely lost vision will be more of a challenge. Let’s hope that at least with this gene therapy future generations can get it before they lose so much vision.”
In a third post, he shared his day-to-day advice: “I may be disabled, but I can still do pretty much everything I’ve always done with a little help from time to time. Just be honest when you need help, be open about what you can and can’t see, and don’t try to do things you can’t do safely.
“Move to a place where you don’t need to rely on a car (or find a partner who can drive you) and try to find a job where you can work remotely permanently.”
Danger! has been excellent at accommodating players in other ways, no questions asked, in recent months. Four-day champion and next ToC contestant Grant DeYoung He competed sitting in a chair as he had arthritis in his back.
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