Family to hold Watertown fundraiser for disabled son Watertown TAB & Press
Christopher Coutoumas Jr. suffers from a seizure disorder. He is legally blind and unable to stand or sit up on his own. But that hasn’t stopped the 13-year-old from swimming, playing baseball and going to school.
All he needs is help.
Coutoumas’ family and friends are now hoping the Cambridge community will provide some of that assistance. On Saturday, they will hold a fundraiser in Watertown to help the family buy a van with a wheelchair lift that will make it easier for the young Coutoumas to get around town and stay active and involved.
“He is involved in baseball, and we do like to take him and involve him as much as we can in the community, but it’s very difficult if we don’t have access,” said his mother, Christine Coutoumas, 43.
Coutoumas wakes up every morning at 6:30 at his home just outside of Harvard Square. His dad, Christopher Sr., 44, gives him medication, then gets him washed, dressed, fed and ready for the 8:15 a.m. bus to the deaf-blind day program at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown.