Blind Woman Sees After Heart Attack

**Mom23boys** · 01-28-2006, 10:24 PM

This is an amazing story!!!

LONDON (AFP) - A 74-year-old woman who had been blind for 25 years awoke in a British hospital after suffering a heart attack and could see again, telling her husband: "You've got older," a newspaper reported.

Doctors were at a loss to explain how Joyce Urch, who lived in a world of shadows and near darkness since 1979, had recovered her sight after the heart attack 16 months ago, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Urch, who was treated at Walgrave Hospital in Coventry, where doctors spent three days battling to save her life, called it a "miracle," the newspaper said.

The newspaper showed the white-haired Urch, bright eyed and beaming, in the arms of her husband Eric after celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary last weekend.

"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," she was quoted as saying.

"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," she said.

"I love going out now. I can look around and see the trees and squirrels and pigeons," she said.

Urch had been unable to see her five children properly since they were young adults and for the first time she was able to look at her 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, the newspaper said.

Despite suffering from glaucoma, doctors did not think this was why she went blind, but could not pinpoint the reasons, she was quoted as saying.

Her husband, 77, did not at first believe his wife, but tested her with what he was wearing and found out she was right.