A woman who had been blind for 13 years bent down to kiss her guide dog, hit her head on a table, and woke up the next morning able to see again.
Lisa Reid, from Auckland, New Zealand, lost her sight at the age of 11 due to a tumour pressing on her optic nerve.
By 2000, she had been completely blind for over a decade, living with the support of her guide dog, Ami, and New Zealand's Blind Foundation.
On the evening of 16 November 2000, the 24-year-old bent down to kiss Ami goodnight and knocked her head against a coffee table. It didn't seem serious. She went to bed as normal.
When she woke the next morning at 9:30am, she could see. She kept it to herself for a few hours at first, content to play with Ami in the back yard.
Then she called her mother and read aloud a health warning from a cigarette packet down the phone.
Auckland Hospital eye surgeon Ross McKay confirmed she had regained 80 per cent vision in her left eye.
He had no explanation for the recovery and said he had never encountered a similar case in 25 years as an eye specialist.
"For some reason she's got her sight back, and don't ask me for an explanation, because I don't have one," he said.
Among the most emotional moments of her recovery was seeing her brother for the first time since he was a boy.
"He was a man, with a goatee and everything. My brother's a man," she said. When she saw her mother, she told her: "You look the same but older."
"It's the little things," Reid later reflected. "Like the colour of the grass, how blue the sky is, the things we all take for granted."
She went on to write a memoir about her experience, titled Angel Eyes.
🚨#BREAKING: An 11-year-old boy in Kentucky is being hailed as a hero for RESCUING a man who was drowning and unconscious at the bottom of a pool.
His name is Avory Woolery, he is ELEVEN years old.
According to Avory, the adults around the pool weren't doing anything, so he put on his goggles, dove down, and pulled a grown man up out of the water.
"No one was doing anything, so I put on my goggles. I went underwater. I grabbed him up. There was no way that I was going to let another man die today. He's a human being. He should be treated as such."
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE HERO!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
الممثله اوه يون آه تتزوج بعد ١١ سنه من الطلاق و زوجها مو مشهور و تقول ان عائلة زوجها يعاملون ولدها كأنه حفيدها الحقيقي عشان كذا كانت تصيح و هي تقول الخبر، مرره سعيده لها تستحق كل السعاده عانت كثير بحياتها 🥹🤍.
This is agonising. Those kids have 100% been in that situation before, knowing what is going to happen and trying to protect their mum. I hope he gets a lengthy sentence in Turkey and that allows the victims to rebuild their lives.
Meksika’da 3 oğlu ve 1 kızı olan bir baba, “Herkes kız çocuklarının daha sakin olduğunu söyler… Bizde durum pek öyle değil” diyerek kızının evdeki en hareketli çocuk olduğunu gösteren anları paylaştı.
Despite having no new releases for almost a year now, TWICE is ranked at #5 on today’s Global-K Chart.
— They are the highest ranked 3rd generation girl group and JYPE act.
Karoline Leavitt went to an expensive private high school, then worked in the White House immediately out of college, then married a billionaire her daddy's age. What kind of spoon is that?