SIGHT RESTORED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 2

SIGHT RESTORED

BLIND FOR FOUR YEARS SEES SON FOR FIRST TIME In a Cardiff. Wales, hospital, Ronald Jelson, 28, an Australian naval stoker, who had been blind for four years since he was wounded in a naval action with the Japanese, has seen his wife and three-months-old son for the first time. This is reported by the London Daily Mail. _ . , Three operations by a Cardin specialist, Mr. Tudor Thomas, have resulted in the restoration of 50 per cent, sight. .Tctson met his wife, formerly Miss Mildred (Billie) Eckhart, when he was in a Melbourne hospital. The doctor found that he was losing his sense of balance, and they advised dancing lessons. Miss Eckhart, a young Melbourne dancing teacher, volunteered for the job, and, in a few months, married the patient. They lived in a flat at St. Kilda. ~,, The naval authorities, in the middle of last year, sent Jetson to Britain for treatment which, at first, was not very successful, because Jetson was missing his wife. The Red Cross authorities arranged for her passage to Britain by air and her child was born soon after •Jip arrived.