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Keegan Paradis

Keegan Paradis

Keegan Paradis, whose childhood vision loss helped solve his family's decades-long medical mystery, diagnosed with rare ROSAH syndrome; guest on Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast.

Sep 22, 2026

32:13
What kind of testing do you remember going through during those early years?
32:20
I remember doing a lot of MRIs.
32:23
I would always do the same eye tests where they're taking a bunch of pictures, shining a big bright light into my eyes.
32:33
There's this one that I really don't like where they kind of like clockwork orange, pry your eyeballs open and take pictures.
32:40
Not a big fan of that one.
32:42
I started with Boston Children's Hospital with an eye specialist and a brain specialist because they were trying to figure out, hey, is this an issue with the brain? Is this an issue with an eye? They had no idea.
32:56
What sort

14 MINS LATER

47:14
It's why he wrote about him in the college essay that got him into film school.
32:13
What kind of testing do you remember going through during those early years?
32:20
I remember doing a lot of MRIs.
32:23
I would always do the same eye tests where they're taking a bunch of pictures, shining a big bright light into my eyes.
32:33
There's this one that I really don't like where they kind of like clockwork orange, pry your eyeballs open and take pictures.
32:40
Not a big fan of that one.
32:42
I started with Boston Children's Hospital with an eye specialist and a brain specialist because they were trying to figure out, hey, is this an issue with the brain? Is this an issue with an eye? They had no idea.
32:56
What sort

14 MINS LATER

47:14
It's why he wrote about him in the college essay that got him into film school.

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