WORKER’S GOOD FORTUNE.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

WORKER’S GOOD FORTUNE.

Blind —Tied Up Shoe —Could See.

There came a glimmering of lightinto the blinded eyes of Gwilym John, one time a colliery worker of Tonyrefall, as he bent down to tie his shoe laces, says the London Dally Mall. And as he raised his head there was a strange look on his face and a light of Joy into eyes that had not seen for 20 years. Something strange, some thing that seemed to him miraculous, had happened. "I can see you," he cried to his wife. And for the -first time slnoe their marriage 20 years ago Gwilym John took his wife into his arms and looked at her with seeing eyes. Not long afterwards he saw his children, whom he • had known only by touoh.

A Buooeeaful Operation. His sight, which had been thought to be destroyed in a colliery explosion, was restored actually by an operation performed by Mr B. Gluck, of Cardiff, who had given him treatment In a municipal hospital. It was not, however, until he lowered his head to tie up his shoes that the suooess of the operation was known. Violonoe of explosion, writes a medical correspondent, may have displaced the retina, the eye's camera film. This can now be replaoed under local anaesthetio by the highfrequency diathermy needle, and as time goes on John's vision Is likely to Improve.