RE: The gift of sight

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Onale: Amazing.......and so wonderful to hear this good news.......and

I'm sure so greatly appreciated by him. Bernie.

The gift of sight

Hi all. This is amazing (to me anyway) My dad has had terrible problems

with his sight since he was a little boy. He missed a whole year of

school because of his eyes and some crazy infection and stuff. The dr's

then told his mom that he would be blind before his teens.

With the help of a really good eye dr. he had special glasses made and

were changed every couple of months. He never went completely blind

although he's legally blind without his 'coke-bottle' glasses on. He was

unable to get laser surgery because of the size/shape of his eyeball and

for the last couple years, his sight had gotten a lot worse.

After waiting for almost a year, he had cataract/lens replacement

surgery on Thursday. They had to construct a special lens because of the

severity of his lack of sight. He just had one eye done on Thursday and

when he got the bandages off yesterday, he walked out of the dr's office

without his glasses on. He now has 20/20 vision in the eye that was

operated on.

He hopes to get the other eye done as soon as possible.

I just had to share my excitement and happiness for my dad. He's almost

60 and gets this gift, after the hell he went through all his life.