05/21/2008 10:44 PM ET

WATTSVILLE, Va.- If you visited 13-year-old Bradley Tullous at his house in the small town of Wattsville on Virginia's Eastern Shore, you would think he was a typical seventh grader who spends time shooting hoops, drawing, and playing with his family.

"Oh, he absolutely is a typical teenager. He likes to play video games way too much he is starting to be on the phone and friends, and mom and dad aren't cool anymore," said his mother Amy Tullous.

But one thing sets him apart from his classmates.

Bradley was born with optic nerve hypoplasia. It is a disorder that keeps nerves in the eye from developing, which leads to vision loss.

"I've never been able to see perfectly. I was blind when I was born but poof I could see out of this eye a little bit cause a bunch of churches prayed. So I can see out of one eye but not the other," Bradley said.

Doctors in the United States told the Tullous family there no cure for Bradley's condition.

So at the end of June they are traveling to China for a treatment that will use adult stem cells to stimulate the optic nerves- a $45,000 trip.

"But what is it really worth? Probably 10 times that if it works, and even more than that probably," said Bradley's father Todd Tullous.

The family is trying to raise money for the procedure and the six-week trip.

For more information on how to help, visit www.bradleysblessing.com .