Toddler born visually impaired opens her eyes properly thanks to corrective surgery!

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Credit: SWNS / Ashley Etherton  A toddler born visually impaired due to a rare condition can see clearly for the first time thanks to corrective surgery.  Lily Etherton, two, suffers from Blepharophimosis Ptosis Epicanthus Inversus Syndrome (BPES), which means she couldn't open her eyes fully.  Lily's condition meant she had droopy eyelids, smaller than average eye openings and an upward fold of the inner lower eyelid.  As she grew older, the condition made it difficult for Lily to move, walk and function.   She'd fall easily or bump into things, often hurting herself.

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00:43How are you doing?

00:44Good.

00:45Good? Let me see your eyes.

00:46Good.

00:51Doing so much better.

00:52Let me see you.

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00:57Do you love that you can see?

00:59Yeah.

01:00Yeah.

01:02So, long story short, we chose Dr. Medell because he has

01:0730-plus years of BPES corrective surgery behind him,

01:12so he has lots of experience.

01:15He knows what he's doing.

01:16He has continuously done more and more research around

01:19BPS syndrome.

01:21His method that he has mastered in the last 22 years is like

01:26a one-and-done surgery.

01:29It's just...

01:31A one-and-done surgery was really the big sailor on for us.

01:33We don't want her to have to go through multiple surgeries

01:35because that's traumatic for a kid.

01:37Nobody wants their kid to have to go through any surgeries,

01:39period, especially one that's so, like, it's scary.

01:44It's on your eyeballs.

01:45That's how you see the world.

01:46So, yeah, that's why we went to Spain.

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