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| Cranberry Township Girl Undergoes Eye Procedure In China |
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| Optic Nerve Hypoplasia | |||
| 週一, 18 八月 2008 10:44 | |||
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There are no translations available. Source: WPXI  CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Lexi Smith loves to swim and tap dance. When she grows up, she hopes to become a registered nurse. Unlike most children her age, Lexi's eye sight is limited. When she was 2 months old, doctors told her parents she would never be able to see. "Before I only saw light. Now I can see a spot on the wall and I can see a spot on the wall and tell where it's coming from," said Smith. Lexi was born with a condition called optic nerve hypoplasia which causes blindness in children. Earlier this year with some $40,000 raised by the community, the Smith family spent 25 days in China so Lexi could receive a series of umbilical cord stem cell infusions. It's a procedure not performed in the United States. Heather Smith hopes that one day it will help her daughter to see. "She pushes her sister around on a little school bus and before she would run into all the walls for some reason I don't know if she's seeing the walls now but she's not hitting the walls," said Smith. Lexi is only one of 16 children ever to be treated for this condition.
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