Posted on 01/20/2006 8:32:02 AM PST by van_erwin
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.
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Doctors have been unable to explain what happened, but Mrs Urch, 74, was happy yesterday to put it down to a "miracle".
She said: "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 [her husband] Eric, 'You've got older haven't you?' But I thought, 'I'm old myself, my husband must be too.'
"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."
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 despite suffering from glaucoma, doctors did not think this was why her sight went, although they were unable to pinpoint the reason.
"They did a lot of tests and said it was a genetic condition," said Mrs Urch. "Other members of my family have lost their sight, including my grandmother and two aunts.
"I had lots of treatments at the hospital but eventually went completely blind. It was totally different when my sight returned. It happened immediately and I could see everything straight away."
There was no sign of what was to come when, 16 months ago, Mrs Urch suffered a heart attack and was admitted to Walgrave Hospital in Coventry, where doctors spent three days battling to save her life.
She and Mr Urch celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last weekend in a way of which she had never dreamed. She said: "I love going out now. I can look around and see the trees and squirrels and pigeons."
Mr Urch, 77, a former coal miner, said: "I didn't believe it when she said she could see me. I said 'What colour pull-over am I wearing?' She said 'grey', 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."
Their eldest daughter, Carol Obeirne, 46, said: "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."
Martin Breen, consultant cardiologist at the Walgrave Hospital, said: "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."
Can you imagine what it's like to think you'd never know what your own grandchildren looked like, then actually look at their faces?
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LOL! That was my thought as well. :)
Doctors have been unable to explain what happened, but Mrs Urch, 74, was happy yesterday to put it down to a "miracle".
I read somewhere that the half life of vitamin C in the body is only about an hour. So if you take a 250mg tab before you go to work, then by mid afternoon, you're already below the RDA.
I take 6-10 grams a day.
blood thinners and imdur ( nitro glycerine ) i have since gone off the nitro, but still take the thinners...forgot what it is at the moment.
All glory and praise to the Lord Jesus Christ!!!!
I hope her grandchildren a re good looking!!! Too bad if gramma wakes up to funny looking kids around her!!!!LoL
You can actually buy in the health food section a cardio Sodium Nitrite prep that is supposed to be good for you. I guess the body basically ignores the nitrite molecules floating around, but if the blood flow slows down, it converts the stuff to NO and that is the same basis for the nitroglycerine treatment.
>>Some scientists measured the amount of vitamin C in a 150 pound goat. They figured the goat manufactured in it's body 13 thousand milligrams of vitamin C a day.
Got a source for that?
Yes, indeed. There has been a good deal of research over the last decade or so into the side effects, and hence other uses, of drugs that were designed for one thing and turn out to do other things as well.
Only if you eat it raw. I think Vitamin C is destroyed by heat.
Give God the Glory!
Exactly!!!!!!
This has got to be the feel good story of the week, or even the month. God works in mysterious ways.
I injured my back recently and went to see several doctors. Since it had been quite painful at first, they all assumed I would be ready for surgery. By the time I could get in to see then though, the pain had subsided to a point which allowed me almost complete mobility. Most of them couldn't understand what had happened. My wife told them that she and others had been praying for me to get better. One doctor then admitted that he thought her prayer had done the trick. He told us that he had experienced many cures and improvements in physical condition that had no medical explanation, that could only be explained as an act of a higher power.
You may be right.
If I had a nickle for every time I heard someone from the medical establishment in the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's say "There's no such thing as a true aphrodisiac" then I'd have one pretty freakin good sized pile of nickles.
Now, I just want a nickle for every time I hear "If you get one and it lasts for more than four hours you better put some ice on it and seek medical attention..."
I always take standard accepted theories with a grain (or even a pound) of salt. So shoot me.
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