This is some Book of John shit right here!
A 60-year-old woman, blind for nearly a decade, can see again!
But “God” God can’t take the credit for this one. Nuh uh!
That honor goes to a team of “Doctor” gods at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine who performed an unusual but revolutionary surgery on the Mississippi grandmother.
MAD PROPS, DOC DUDES!!!
Sharron Thornton suffers from Stevens-Johnson syndrome and was rendered blind after an allergic reaction to a medication which damaged her cornea. She had tried many medical procedures, including gene therapy, but nothing brought her sight back.
“Being blind was horrible after seeing for 51 years,” she said.
The procedure she had in Miami — get ready to be amazed and impressed but, yeah, probably also a little freaked out — involved implanting one of her teeth into her eye as a base to hold a tiny plastic lens.
No foolin’!
It’s the tooth!!
“We take sight for granted, not realizing that it can be lost at any moment,” she said after the surgery. “This truly is a miracle.”
Because a lot of patients’ bodies reject transplanted or artificial corneas, American doctors — for the first time ever — used an Italian-pioneered procedure called (don’t hurt yourself on this one) osteo-odonto-kerato-prosthesis in which the canine or “eyetooth” and surrounding bone are extracted, shaved and sculpted. Doctors then drill a hole into it to insert an optical cylinder lens.
Freakycool, right?!? But there’s more!
The tooth and the lens are then implanted under the patient’s skin in the cheek or shoulder for two months so they could bond. Once bonded, they are implanted in the center of the eye after a series of procedures to prepare the socket.
“A hole is made in the mucosa for the prosthetic lens, which protrudes slightly from the eye and enables light to re-enter the eye allowing the patient to see once again,” read an Eye Institute statement.
And just like the dude in John 9:25 … Thornton now too can say ‘whereas I was blind, now I see’.
Biblical AND Scientifical – YAY!!!
Thornton said people should imagine what it is like “if you could keep your eyes closed just for one week … it’s amazing what you see when you open your eyes again.”
Her bandages were removed two weeks ago and she was able to recognize objects and faces a few hours later. She is now able to read a newspaper.
But what does she most want to see?
You guessed it – the fam!
“I’m looking forward to seeing my seven youngest grandchildren for the first time,” said Thornton.
Rock ON science!SOURCE
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