Legally Blind Woman Is Given Sight, And The First Thing She Sees Is Her Newborn Baby

[Playinghardball]

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&feature=player_detailpage&x-yt-cl=84503534&v=e9crPvfcEy4

Kathy Beitz has been legally blind since she was a child, and she desperately wanted to be able to see her son on the day he was born. So the eSight Corporation -- a company that produces special glasses that give legally blind people the ability to see -- loaned Beitz a pair of glasses for the day.

Her older sister Yvonne Felix, who is also legally blind, uploaded a video of Beitz seeing her son for the first time. It's incredibly touching.

“For the first baby that I get to actually look at being my own is very overwhelming," Beitz says. "Even to look at my husband looking at him was such a good feeling. I got to fall in love with him."

How do the glasses work? According to eSight, the $15,000 glasses "combine a camera, display technology, and advanced computing to deliver a real-time video that enables sight for people with vision loss." Wearers can zoom, enhance, and alter the image they see to match their own unique needs.

Felix told The Huffington Post her own experience as a mom who couldn't see her babies when they were born motivated the family to make sure it wouldn't happen to Beitz.

More here:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/21/blind-woman-newborn-baby_n_6518384.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

[elleng]

1. Thanks.

Going to visit my daughter and her 6 month old son NOW!

[BrotherIvan]

2. Wow, it would be wonderful if she and every person who could benefit could get access to

glasses like those. I hate to say it but another yacht or jet for a hedge fund manager or glasses to change someone's life, I know which one I'd vote for.

[Hekate]

3. Incredibly touching. Charlie Rose had a panel of scientists a few weeks ago...

I was channel cruising a few weeks ago and came upon Charlie Rose with a panel of scientists, all of them working on different kinds of blindness. It was fascinating, and if anyone can find a link to that program online, please share. They are doing incredible pioneering work now, and I wish I could watch the whole thing.

That said, *don't* read the comments on You Tube. There are now 22 and a bunch of them are cynical and negative. Yikes.