It happened in USA, to receive the gift of "artificial sight" there was a mother from Colorado, who, for the first time, started to see again after 25 years.
Born with retinitis pigmentosa, Jamie Carley, for over than two decades lived without sight. A degenerative desease, the retinitis brings the cell of retina to a slow death. But, due to a new bionic eye, the Colorado mother recently received the gift of sight.
It's hard to imagine what does it mean, among the dark...only a glimmer ...to see a son after so many years. An emotion that we cannot even imagine!
Carley received the retinic plant Argus II (we discussed about it some time ago : Robotic prothesis and sight), a microchip that works through a pair of glasses endowed with a camera, that send impulses to some electrodes implanted behind retina, that can stimulate the optical nerve. This is the aim of ' UC Health Eye Center: to redevelop "small quantities" of the sight.
Thanks to the plant, Carley can perceive the light, dark and outile of objects. It is inconceivable of not understanding the surprise of seeing the shadow of a car passing. But, maybe, the most amazing thing she saw until now, it's his child's silhouette. She lost completely the sight since she was 26 years old, when his son ( now he's thirty ) was 3 .
UC Health Eye Center is hopeful and certain that, within next months, day by day, Carley's brain will learn to interpret the optical signs and her sight will be in continuos upgrade.
Those are the stories taht we liek to listen to, of how, with technological advance, we will solve problems through solutions unkonown until now. A lto has been made and a lot more is waiting for us, but the direction is correct .
One day we will know how to cure or to redevelop the damages made by degenerative deseases, just as retinitis pigmentosa.
