“I had to read books and learn lessons with the help of the right eye” she said
Gopika
KOTTAYAM: Gopika was resolved to live for the rest of her life as a partially blind person as she and her parents were worried over the complications of an eye transplant which doctors said was inevitable. She lost sight in her left eye after a stick pierced into it while playing when she was just one-and-half year old. After the corneal transplant conducted at the Kottayam medical college hospital in 2013, she regained her vision and she cleared her Plus-Two school board exam with 82 percent marks this year.
Her father Balan, mother Radhamany and elder brother Gokul were delighted to see her winning both the tests. So were the fellow villagers in Umikuppa near Erumely.
She studied at the SNDP Higher Secondary School, Venkurinji, and the surgery was carried out while she was in Plus-One.
“We registered for the transplant at the Medical College and an unexpected call came within days. Though it was risky, I decided to go under the knife,” Gopika told Deccan Chronicle. She says her teachers and friends encouraged her in her studies after the transplant. Though it was a bit strenuous to discharge her day to day functions with the deprivation, she had gradually got used to it.
“I had to read books and learn lessons with the help of the right eye. Now things are easy and I understand what it means to have both the eyes,” she said. “That makes a lot of difference”. Her ambition is to become a social worker and she had already applied for her undergraduate course.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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