Mary Ann Franco lost her eyesight 21 years ago after she sustained injuries from a car crash. Over time, the great-grandmother of two had accustomed herself to her sudden lack of vision – which had already only been in black and white.
Just recently however, Franco took a serious fall in her own home, injuring her spine enough that she required spinal surgery afterward.
When she woke up, she called to the nurse, “Lady, you with all that purple on you, give me something for pain.”
Everyone in the room – the nurse, Franco’s niece, and the doctors – was stunned.
Franco had inexplicably regained her vision – in full color.
She spent her first few days of regained sight describing the world around her. “Out the window, I could see the trees… I could see the houses…”
Dr. John Afshar, Franco’s neurosurgeon who had operated on her after her fall, is at a loss for words. He figured that prior to Franco’s recent fall, Franco might have had a “kinked artery” in her spine that was affecting the blood flow to her brain and altering her vision.
During the surgery Franco required for her fall, Dr. Afshar “may have unwittingly unkinked the artery.” He admitted, “It really is truly a miracle. I’ve never seen it, never heard of it.”
Franco, though she now has to wear a neck brace, claims, “I’m the happiest woman in the whole wide world!”
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