Woman who had been blind for 25 years had a heart attack — when she woke up in hospital, she could see the world again
Sometimes people find cures to their illnesses and solutions to their problems in unexpected ways. There might not be an explanation behind why such a thing happened, but the results present themselves in front of people regardless of that. A woman who had been blind for 25 years witnessed a miracle of sorts when she could see after she had a life-threatening heart attack. The moment the woman woke up she could suddenly see everything, as per The Telegraph, leaving her family and doctors in shock.
The 74-year-old woman, Joyce Urch, woke up in a British hospital after suffering a heart attack and could suddenly see everything after 25 years of losing her vision. The doctors had no explanation about how and why the woman had gotten her vision back after losing it in 1979. The incident occurred 16 months ago as the woman was recovering from a heart attack. "When I first came round I just opened my eyes and shouted 'I can see, I can see.' When I looked in the mirror I said 'Oh.' I said to Eric. 'You've got older haven't you?' But I thought I'm old myself, my husband must be too," the woman expressed. The doctors termed the incident as a miracle.
Before the incident, doctors had spent three days in an effort to save the woman's life after she suffered a heart attack. "The first time you look in the mirror you look at yourself and think, 'Is that really me?' But a lot of things have changed," Urch shared after experiencing the big change. "I love going out now. I can look around and see the trees and squirrels and pigeons," she continued. The woman could now see her children she hadn't seen growing up into young adults. She also got to see her twelve grandchildren and three great-grandchildren for the first time after so many years. She recently celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary with her 77-year-old husband, who simply couldn't believe what his wife told him at first but eventually did after he asked what he was wearing in the hospital.
"I didn't believe it when she said she could see me. I asked what color pullover I was wearing. She said gray, and she was right. When Joyce first went blind it made a huge change to our life. Everything seemed to fall away from us. She couldn't do anything. She does little chores now. We try to do everything between us. This has given us both our lives back," the husband admitted. The woman had suffered glaucoma, a condition that increases the pressure on the eyeballs but the doctors believe that it wasn't the cause behind her blindness. However, no one knows the exact reason why the woman went blind in the first place how she regained her sight, or its connection with the heart attack.
"I am not able to give a medical explanation. When she was admitted to hospital, she had suffered a serious heart attack and our main concern was to save her life. I am delighted that she has fully recovered, and it is an added bonus that she has also recovered her sight," Martin Breen, a consultant cardiologist at the Walgrave Hospital, pointed out. "When she first came round we thought, this is not going to last, she is going to die. Then she started shouting, I can see. I was just so excited. My mother has never been given any medical explanation as to why she lost her sight, nor has she ever been offered any medical explanation as to how she recovered it," Carol Obeirne, the woman's oldest daughter revealed.