Doctors Help a Woman See Again
Elena is 67 and lives in Italy. For years, she could not see.
Both of her eyes were hurt, but in different ways. Each eye still had some healthy parts.
Doctors in Turin had a clever idea. They moved good parts from one eye into the other.
The operation took six hours. Professor Michele Reibaldi called it a "complicated marathon".
Doctors think this is the first operation like this in the world.
Checks show Elena is starting to see again. She saw her son and her dog, Joe.
Big words
- operation
- When doctors carefully fix part of someone's body
- transplant
- Moving a body part from one place to another
- retina
- The part inside your eye that senses light
- surgeon
- A doctor who does operations
- marathon
- Something very long and hard, like a long race
What do you think?
What do you think Elena felt when she saw her dog again?
Talk about it with a grown-up, or write your answer in English.
For grown-ups
This is a real story from Good News Network, La Stampa (original reporting, in Italian), rewritten for children. Read the full version for English learners at A1, A2 or B1 — with vocabulary, a grammar note and a quiz. How we write the news.
