A mother who hadn’t seen the faces of her children for 15 years after she was wrongly diagnosed with detached retinas has finally regained her sight.

Connie Park from Colorado, USA, found her life getting more difficult and smaller when her vision started to decline.

She last saw her eldest granddaughter when she was only 3 years old and she had no idea how her other grandchildren appeared.

Doctors wrongly diagnosed her with detached retinas or glaucoma but after she discovered the misdiagnosis, she finally had her sight restored.

It turned out that Connie had cataracts, which could be easily removed. After undergoing surgery, she now has 20/20 vision in both eyes.

“People need to get rechecked because I was blind for 15 years probably for no reason. They’ve been doing cataract surgeries for years,” she said.

“The day the retina specialist told me he saw no diseased retinas, my husband and I instantly got upset.”

Connie continued: “I had a little resentment towards the doctors that couldn’t find anything wrong or told me all these things were wrong, but the God’s honest truth is the day they took the patch off my eye, and I could see, it took all that anger away.”

The mother first started noticing prisms and halos on car lights while she was driving in 2003. She visited a doctor who informed her that she had glaucoma.

“Three weeks later, I had lost even more sight and peripheral vision,” she shared.

She was told that her loss of sight was inoperable and that she would become blind. “I didn’t believe it until I started hurting myself,” she said.

“I was getting lost, falling down stairs, falling up stairs and setting myself and my house on fire. I had lost over 85% of my sight in five and a half months,” she said.

She did not let her blindness stop her from doing the things she loved, such as camping, ice skating, kayaking, and attending concerts and sporting events. However, there were many things that were difficult to adjust to.

In 2018, she was referred to the UCHealth Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center where she was told by an ophthalmologist that she was not suffering from a detached retina but cataracts.

After surgery, Connie has been able to see her eldest granddaughter for the first time since she was a toddler, and her eight other grandchildren for the first time.

“The eldest doesn’t look anything like she looked when she was three weeks old,” she expressed.

“The hardest thing was looking in the mirror, because I never thought about myself aging,” Connie added. “I had no idea who that was looking back at me.”

But Connie was happy to see her husband again. “He’s still the most handsome man ever and I’m still completely in love with him,” she added.

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