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An accident took her sight 21 years ago;
another just gave it back
After a car accident injured her spine in 1995, Mary Ann
Franco lost her vision. But after being blind for 21 years, the
Florida woman fell in her home and hurt her neck ... and
woke up from the ensuing spinal surgery on April 6 with the
ability to see. "Out the window, I could see the trees. I could
see the houses and stuff," Franco tells WPBF. Oddly,
Franco was colorblind before her car accident, and now she
can also see colors. The neurosurgeon who operated on her
says he has no scientific explanation for what happened—
Dr. John Afshar tells ABC News it's a "true miracle"—but he
has an idea. If an artery in Franco's spine was "kinked" in
the car accident, restricting the flow of blood to the part of
her brain that handles vision, he may have inadvertently
"unkinked" the same artery during the recent surgery, he
theorizes. "And when we gave that extra amount of blood
flow by unkinking the vessel, it could have reestablished the
blood flow," he tells WPBF, though he notes that none of
this is certain. But an explanation doesn't matter much to
Franco: "The sun is coming through the trees," she said on
a recent morning. "Oh God, it’s so wonderful to see." Nature
isn't the only sight for her to behold: Franco has seven
grandchildren and two great grandchildren who WPBF notes
she has hugged and kissed but never seen.
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de maio de 2016.
Mary Ann Franco