Blind Woman Regains Sight After Heart Attack
Jan 29th, 2006 | by CousinPaulie | Posted in weird news | Comments Off
For 26 years Joyce Urch of Coventry, England, listened to her family grow — five kids, 12 grandkids, three great-grandkids.
She listened, but she couldn’t see them. Blinded by a hereditary illness, Joyce was resigned to a life of blackness.
Then one day, she was rushed to the hospital with chest pains. Doctors described her as lifeless. She had suffered a heart attack and kidney failure.
Then Urch woke up after a life-saving operation and opened her eyes. She could see.“I shouted, I did,” Urch said. “I said, ‘I’m back, I’m back.’ ”
Her daughter Carol O’Beirne called the rest of the family, including Eric Urch, Joyce’s husband of nearly 50 years. He looked a little different than Joyce remembered.“I thought to myself, he was so lovely at one time,” Joyce Urch said. “Now he’s getting old and grey.”
“She leaned forward,” Eric Urch said, “and she just looked at me and said, ‘Haven’t you got old.’ And I said, ‘Wait ’til you have a look in the mirror.’ ”
She soon learned that a lot of things had changed.
