Before she went to bed that night, Maria went to bathroom. She looked into the mirror… she stared at it and studied it intently…and all of sudden it dawned on her that the beautiful girl she saw looking back at her was actually herself! Maria squealed with delight: “Sunt frumoasa (I am so pretty, in Romanian)!”, as she was seeing herself for the very first time!
Maria has finally come out of darkness, and into sight! （more English detail on next page）
本报讯 在上期的报纸中，《田纳西新闻》在头版中讲述了15岁盲女玛丽亚的故事。在此后收到了无数兄弟姐妹们的对玛丽亚的良好祝愿和祈祷，祈祷她能够在上帝的保守下安全地、成功地度过手术艰难困苦的多个关头，化险为夷。能够让她从黑暗中走出来，进入光明。这是一个神奇的故事，田纳西州纳什维尔主要媒体和电视台，都报道了这一事件。王明旭医师和王氏眼科医院，再一次成为媒体和社区聚焦点，也再一次为华人挣得荣誉。
玛丽亚是一个盲孤女，因为是早产，生下来只有2磅重，没有得到治疗，且营养不良和身体发育没有得到重视，也影响了她的视力以及她的眼睛视网膜的发育，可是上天还算是公平的，给了她一张美丽清纯的小脸（但她却从未看到过她自己），玛丽亚患有双眼慢性炎症，双眼球震颤，眼球时刻不停地晃动，右眼患有晚期致盲性白内障，瞳孔和混浊的晶体白内障粘连在一起，出现了瞳孔变形变小，使得瞳孔没有任何力量去聚焦 ，也无法看到任何东西。左眼视网膜脱离（导致左眼完全失明）。
15年来，生活在黑暗中的玛丽亚每天每时每刻都在无数次祈祷，多么希望神迹发生，能够帮助15岁的她，使她能够看到她自己以及她周围的美好的世界。
上帝垂听了这个15岁盲孤女的呼唤，通过王氏复明基金会（Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration）以及众多的弟兄姐妹们的帮助，终于帮助玛丽亚遥途万里一路艰辛来到了美国来到了王氏眼科医院。
面对玛丽亚这样复杂的特殊眼病状况，王明旭医师（Dr. Ming Wang）以及金会的医生和护士们都必须克服重重困难。玛丽亚的手术需要通过十道关口，每一道关口必须成功才能保证手术成功。王医师和他的团队认真做好了手术前每一步的精心设计和计划。
这次有决定性意义的手术是在星期二进行的。术前王医师和玛丽亚以及帮助玛丽亚的朋友们围坐一圈，手拉手形成了巨大力量的一圆圈，王医师祷告道：＂主啊，如果你认为玛丽亚应该能够看得到，能够从黑暗中走出光明，显神力吧，我们赞美您爱戴您，衷心感谢主带我们开始这个艰苦的旅行并坚信主会把我们带出黑暗，走进光明的，但不管主的最终决定是什么，我们作为基督徒会永远相信主，会永远接受主的裁决。＂
手术开始了，决定玛丽亚光明和黑暗的时刻到了。王医师在高倍显微镜下精心把巩膜和囊袋的沾粘万分小心的分开，不能撕裂任何组织，玛丽亚的瞳孔是结巴并且变形的，王医师用一个特殊的技术和特殊的手术器械将瞳孔扩张，并重新改造瞳孔最终成为圆形，玛丽亚的白内障核很硬，通过小瞳孔的操作难度相当大，在手术中随时都有破囊核掉核的危险，如果这些情况发生的话，玛丽亚有可能会造成视网膜的脱离，这对于早产儿左眼已经视网膜脱离完全失明的玛丽亚来说，这会导致右眼严重手术合并症而前功尽弃，玛丽亚将会双眼失明永远坠入完全黑暗的深渊而无可救药。
玛丽亚的复明手术是非常艰难，这困难就好像往空中投币，钱币落地后必须是头面朝上，才能往空中投下一次，所以按照人的有限的能力，玛丽亚复明手术的成功几率为零。
王医师使用所有的手术技巧和丰富的临床手术经验，全神贯注小心翼翼地为玛丽亚实施手术，额头上露出了汗珠，手术室鸦雀无声，连掉一根针的声音都能听得到。手术间的短暂休息，王医师还是在心里面默默祷告，重整军师，继续下去……。终于达到了最后一步……并顺利植入了人工晶状体。
高难度的手术终于成功了，历时三个多小时。神给予医生们智慧，保守王医师和他的团队, 最终他们终于能够奇迹般地克服了一个个障碍并成功地完成这次手术。
术后，当从玛丽娅的右眼摘掉眼罩的一瞬间, 她睁开了眼，看见了! 几英尺外的手指，她都能够数的很清楚, 后来她微笑着看着房间内的每一个人。
当玛丽亚回到曾经住过几周的Hendrich的家里时，这是她第一次看到她的家,看到了房子和家具，她一直很惊讶、欢喜。接下来她躺在了沙发上, 眼睛看着上方的天花板的电风扇,快乐地数着电风扇的叶片，难以想象一个从未看到过自己的美丽小女孩突然能看到自己的心情。
当天晚上,玛丽亚上床之前,她走进浴室,照了镜子,盯着自己并开始专注地研究起来, 突然她意识到在后面正在盯着自己看的女孩正是她自己.她兴奋地尖叫着: “ 我真漂亮”！她第一次,看到了她自己。
玛丽亚终于复明了！
玛丽亚从黑暗走入了光明！
有生以来玛丽亚第一次看到了她自己！这中奇异的体验和特殊的感觉，是我们常人永远不能体会到的。
奇迹发生了，这是一次神迹，玛丽亚奇迹般的走出了黑暗进入了光明！
“ 我真漂亮”(罗马尼亚语)…她第一次,看到了她自己。
For information about Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration: www.wangfoundation.com, 1801 West End Ave, Ste 1150, Nashville, TN, 37203, 615-321-8881(O), drwang@wangvisioninstitute.com
（Nashville， TN） It has been a little over a year since the doctors at the Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration first learned from Steve and Lynn Hendrich of a young, 15-year-old blind girl named Maria, who had been living in a special needs orphanage in Balti, Moldova. In the fall of 2012, Maria’s story became the inspiration and primary focus of the foundation’s annual fundraiser, the “EyeBall”. At this gala event, over 500 attendees heard Maria’s story and were touched by her photo, which was projected across the big screen. After that, many kindhearted citizens began a project to assist Maria in obtaining her visa so that she could come to America and be seen by the foundation to receive surgical treatments with the latest sight restoration technologies that could possibly allow her to see again!
Born prematurely, weighing only 2 pounds and having no access to proper medical care, Maria became malnourished and her physical development suffered significantly from neglect, which affected her vision most of all. Maria’s ocular history included an advanced, blinding cataract in her right eye, chronic inflammation of both eyes, a retinal detachment on her left eye (which has left her totally blind in that eye), and partial atrophy of both optic nerves. Even though Maria has been blind most of her life, she is kind and has befriended all the children at the orphanage. They know that if they are sad or need something, they can come to Maria for help because she will smile joyfully and do her best to help them. But Maria wanted to be able to see. At age 15, when a teen is typically excited and looking forward to a lifetime of happiness and possibilities, Maria had been forced to live in darkness and misery, and had been told that she would have to remain there for the rest of her life. This is where the Wang Foundation came in.
Established by Ming Wang, Harvard & MIT (MD, magna cum laude); PhD (laser physics), the Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration (www.wangfoundation.com) is a 501(3) non-profit charity, which to date has helped patients from over 40 states in the U.S. and 55 countries worldwide, with all sight restoration surgeries performed free-of-charge. The foundation doctors have published 7 textbooks and a paper in the world-renowned journal “Nature”, they hold several U.S. patents for new biotechnologies to restore sight, and they performed the world’s first laser-assisted artificial cornea implantation. Upon hearing Maria’s life story, the doctors decided unanimously that Maria would be the foundation’s next patient.
However, the road to bring Maria to the U.S. to be seen by the foundation was a challenging one. Maria’s biological mother had to be located, and then many attempts were made to convince her to allow Maria to travel to America to receive the necessary treatments. Dr. Wang himself wrote many letters to consulates and embassies asking for help in obtaining Maria’s visa. Due to the combined efforts of many caring people, led by Steve and Lynn Hendrich, throughout the course of the past 12+ months, Maria finally received her visa and came to America.
Maria arrived at the Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration on the morning of Monday, October 21, 2013, where she underwent a full eye evaluation. Dr. Wang and his team discovered that Maria had lost 100% of her sight in the left eye (due to a retinal detachment), and 99% in the right eye (she could only see light). She had to be led around if she wanted to go anywhere.
Dr. Wang planned a complicated and high-risk cataract surgery for Maria’s right eye. The reason the procedure was so risky is that she had multiple eye diseases and issues, including a small, scarred and deformed pupil, tight adhesion of her iris to her lens, a dense cataract, uveitis, the unknown status of lens and zonular stability, and the possibility of retinal and optic nerve diseases.
Therefore, Dr. Wang and his team had many barriers to overcome, each which could cause the surgery to fail entirely. If even one step along the way was not successful, the team would most likely not be able to continue to the next step. All the barriers had to be overcome successfully in order to have a chance to restore even a portion of Maria's sight. The odds of this entire process being successful were not good, i.e., similar to the odds of tossing a coin in the air several times and receiving “heads” on every toss, and if even one toss resulted in “tails”, the game would be over! So in the Maria’s situation, all of the surgical steps (“tosses”) had to be performed with the utmost precision (“heads”) in order for the team to complete this complex and high risk surgery successfully.
So with such high risks at stake, why did Dr. Wang want to do this surgery? The reason is that if nothing was done soon, Maria would lose the 1% of sight that she had left in her right eye due its growing, end-stage cataract, and she would then be completely blind. So the foundation decided to meet this challenge, and they embarked upon a very difficult journey with Maria, praying throughout the process that God would step in and bless Maria with a successful surgical outcome, and bring her out of darkness and into sight!
The fateful surgery was performed on Thursday, 11/7/2013, and took over 3 hours to complete. Dr. Wang restored the distorted anatomy of Maria’s iris and pupil, reconstructed the pupil, detached the iris and lens adhesion, removed the dense cataract, stabilized the anterior segment and implanted an intraocular lens. God guided the hands of Dr. Wang and his team, and they ended up being able to miraculously overcome each and every obstacle to complete the surgery successfully!
When the patch was removed from Maria’s right eye after surgery, she opened it and she could see! She counted fingers that were held several feet from her face, then she looked at everyone in the room… and smiled.
When Maria returned to the Hendrich’s home, where she had been living for weeks but was now seeing for the first time, she marveled at the house and all its furniture. She lied down on the sofa, looked up and enjoyed counting the blades of the ceiling fan.
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