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Surgery Restores the Sight of a Woman Blinded by SJS
| November 30, 2009. By LAS Newswire |
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Sumter, SC: A South Carolina woman who was blinded 12 years ago due to complications arising from the treatment of her Stevens Johnson Syndrome has had her vision restored, thanks to the intervention of a Boston-based surgeon.
 Cynthia Dicks was a healthy quality control expert when she developed pneumonia and was prescribed the antibiotic Septra.
An allergic reaction to the medication caused her to develop Stevens Johnson Syndrome, a potentially fatal illness that causes large areas of the skin to become detached and can lead to rashes, burns, persistent fever, blisters and swelling of the eye lids.
Continued swelling cost Dicks her left eye and eventually her vision. It also stunted her production of tears, saliva and sweat, and other fluids.
Thanks to a complicated procedure that removed a portion of her eyelid and cornea, Dick's vision has now increased to 20/40, though she still wears dark sunglasses to protect her exposed cornea from light exposure.
"It was good to see something," Dicks tells the Sun News. "I was looking at my cousin Mary. …All I could do was holler. I couldn't cry."
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