A WOMAN blinded by a rare condition can see again after breakthrough treatment which “pumped up” her eye.
Nicki Guy, 47, suffers from hypotony — low eye pressure — and was the first patient injected with a low-cost gel.
Londoner Nicki said results of the pioneering procedure at the capital’s Moorfields Eye Hospital were “phenomenal”.
Mrs Guy, a communications officer for sight loss charity Thomas Pocklington Trust, said: “With hypotony, your eye basically crumples like a paper bag.
“The annoying thing is I’ve got good vision behind the folds.”
“A lot of patients perhaps won’t have that, but the signal between my optic nerve and my brain, it’s there.
“The vision is there.
“It was just this collapse of the structure.”
Specialists injected clear and colourless hydroxypropyl methylcellulose every two weeks for a year.
Mrs Guy – who had to surrender her driving licence in 2021 due to her condition – now hopes to get behind the wheel again.
She said: “Now I’m so close to being able to drive again.
“And I’ve been able to take my son skiing.”
