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Article: They can treat burns and stomach problems ... now they've saved my sight. The amazing healing power of placentas; GoodHealth ME AND MY OPERATION SCAR REVISION.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 22, 2005
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Byline: CHARLOTTE HARDING
LAVINIA RAYNOR, a 53-year-old mother-of-five from Beverley in East Yorkshire, was born with a dermoid, a painful growth, in her left eye.
Despite more than 90 operations the condition was only recently brought under control by a revolutionary operation. Here Lavinia, a support worker for special needs children, tells CHARLOTTE HARDING about her operation and her surgeon explains more.
THE PATIENT
WHEN I was about two, I became aware something was wrong with my eye. The lady in charge of my nursery noticed an orange spot the size of a pinhead in the white of my left eye and thought I had been poked in the eye ...