{"id":12589,"date":"2019-09-18T14:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=276149"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:08","slug":"baby-boy-cant-stop-smiling-after-surgery-allows-him-to-see-clearly-for-the-very-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/baby-boy-cant-stop-smiling-after-surgery-allows-him-to-see-clearly-for-the-very-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Can\u2019t Stop Smiling After Surgery Allows Him To See Clearly For The Very First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 7-month-old was overjoyed after being able to see clearly for the first time in his little life. Theo Bennett underwent surgery at Leeds General Infirmary in the UK to remove cataracts from both of his eyes.<\/span>When he put on his new glasses for the first time two weeks after the surgery, Theo was happy with what he could see.<\/span>The little boy beamed as he sat on his mother\u2019s lap, looking around and taking in the world around him. He was especially happy when he laid eyes on his dad.<\/span>Theo was diagnosed with congenital cataracts just a month earlier after his mom, Lois Bennett, noticed cloudiness in her 6-month-old\u2019s eyes. The rare condition affects about three to four children per 10,000 in the United Kingdom, according to the Royal National Institute of Blind People<\/a>.<\/span>The surgery replaced the lenses in his eyes with artificial ones.<\/span>\u201cWhen he put the glasses on, he looked at me with a big smile and you could see him looking around,\u201d dad Joe Bennett, 37, told news agency SWNS<\/a>. \u201cIt melts your heart because you think to yourself, \u2018He can actually see now.\u2019\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/Inside Edition<\/span>\u201cIt was amazing. We took him out that afternoon and it was apparent that he was looking at the world around him like he\u2019d never really done before,\u201d Joe recalled.<\/span>It\u2019s been about a year since Theo\u2019s surgery, and he\u2019s doing great. Doctors hope Theo will only need glasses for reading once his vision has fully developed.<\/span>As for Theo, he\u2019s so happy that he can see now, as you can tell by the sweet grin on his face!<\/span>Watch the video to see this little cutie in action.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 7-month-old was overjoyed after being able to see clearly for the first time in his little life. Theo Bennett underwent surgery at Leeds General Infirmary in the UK to remove cataracts from both of his eyes.When he put on his new glasses for the first time two weeks after the surgery, Theo was happy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45740,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions\/45740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}