Success in Kena

I would like to tell you a success story that happened this past summer on June 2007.

A patient came to us in a caravan in one of the villages of KENA province, a mother with her daughter who was 19 years old. She suffered from a Corneal Opacity due to a severe infection on the cornea, the case way not managed well, and then she had a corneal opacity. As you will see, the young woman didn’t look very good.

Since then, she has faced a lot of difficulties. She was engaged to be married before she got the infection. After she got the infection, her fiancée left her. He told her that he couldn’t marry a semi-blind woman.

The woman went into a depression. She couldn’t attend college because her eyes were so bad. She had to wear dark glasses all the time when she went out of her home even in the lectures, which gave the impression that she was blind. Her life became dark.

Her parents were not rich. They took her to eye doctors which demanded a lot of money, more than 15000 le, which they couldn't afford. Her father earns 400 le at his job, which is for his entire family to live on. He has four children, and none of them work except him.

The woman continued to cry and ask GOD to solve her problem, which turned her life to a dark profile.

When she came to the association, we asked her to do a sonar on the eye. The report was sooo bad, it said she has a retinal detachment and no hope for the operation. When I examined her, I suggested that there is no detachment, because she can see the light from the four directions.

I made a decision to take her to Cairo to repeat the sonar on the eye, which revealed a very good result and that the retina was in place and she could make the operation successfully.

On August 14, 2007 we performed the operation on the expense of the association, which passed very smoothly without any complications. After three weeks she had a 6/18 vision with no correction. She was so happy!

She regained her good looks, vision and her self confidence. She took off her dark glasses that she used to wear to hide her white eye, and now she is proud by her beautiful eyes.

She went back to her college with a lot of hope and desire to succeed in her exams after her failure in two items last year because of her bad circumstances.

She said, “I feel that I am newly born again after my vision came back to me.”
To all of you, we would like to say, “Thanks a lot for all that you helped us with, and thanks for your cooperation to help with others’ weakness and pain.”

GOD BLESS YOU ALL
Ahmed Hathoot