Miracle awakening for heart attack victim
Published: January 21, 2006
A WOMAN who had been blind for 25 years awoke in hospital after suffering a heart attack and found that she could see again.
Since 1979, Joyce Urch had lived in a world of shadows and near-darkness, but was astonished to find her sight restored when she came round after being resuscitated.
Doctors at Walgrave Hospital in Coventry, in the English Midlands, have been unable to explain what happened, but Mrs Urch, 74, was happy this week to put it down to a “miracle”.
“When I first came round I just opened my eyes and shouted, ‘I can see, I can see’,” she said. “I said to Eric [her husband], ‘You’ve got older haven’t you?’ But I thought, ‘I’m old myself, my husband must be too’.”
Mrs Urch had been unable to see her five children properly since they were young adults and, for the first time, was able to look at her 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
She said that while she suffered from glaucoma, doctors did not think this was why her sight went, although they were unable to pinpoint the reason.
“I had lots of treatments at the hospital but eventually went completely blind,” Mrs Urch said. “It was totally different when my sight returned. It happened immediately and I could see everything straight away.”
A consultant cardiologist at the Walgrave Hospital, Martin Breen, said he could not give a medical explanation for Mrs Urch’s restored sight.
“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,” he said.
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