Banking is getting ridiculous. I logged into my account to transfer a certain sum of money from savings into checking. Said sum was apparently too large and they are holding it for up to 48hours to clear.
In 1993, a car crash took Mary Ann Franco's sight. Twenty-three years later, she tripped over tiles in her kitchen and accidentally got it back.
Franco, a former nurse from Okeechobee, Florida, lost her vision in 1993 after a car accident damaged her spine and she suffered a stroke on the operating table during the emergency surgery that followed.
“Nothing. I couldn't see anything. However hell felt, I felt like I was there," she said.
She refused to let it stop her. For two decades she took up painting, drawing, and skydiving. "So you can't see, so what? Get up and get moving," she said.
In 2016 she tripped on uneven tiles at home and injured her spine again. Surgeons operated to realign her vertebrae.
When she woke up she could see the St. Lucie River from her hospital window. "Out the window, I could see the trees. I could see the houses," she said.
Her first words to the nurse were: "I can't believe this."
Her neurosurgeon Dr. John Afshar called it a true miracle.
His theory is that the original crash kinked an artery restricting blood flow to the part of the brain controlling vision, and the 2016 surgery unknowingly unkinked it. He has never seen it before or since.
Franco had seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren she had hugged and kissed for years but never seen.