Real-Fix
  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Videos
  • Relationships
  • Bizarre
  • Crime
  • Health
  • Inspiration
  • Love This
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Videos
  • Relationships
  • Bizarre
  • Crime
  • Health
  • Inspiration
  • Love This
No Result
View All Result
Real-Fix
No Result
View All Result

Brave burns survivor can finally sleep peacefully thanks to new EYELIDS

RealFix by RealFix
October 4, 2015
in Editor's Picks, Health
0
Brave burns survivor can finally sleep peacefully thanks to new EYELIDS

Collect of Perlucia Mathebula, 7, who will finally be able to blink after undergoing an operation to give her eyelids. See SWNS story SWEYES; A young burns victim can finally blink for the first time in more than six years after a charity arranged for her to have major surgery à to give her EYELIDS. Perlucia Mathebula, seven, had skin graft from her groin to rebuild her eyelids at a British hospital so she no longer has to sleep with her eyes open. The little girl was just six months old when she was horrifically burned while being looked after by her toddler sister in her home-town near Witbank near South Africa. Bronwen Jones, her legal guardian and founder of London and Johannesburg-based charity Children of Fire, praised surgeons for saving her eyesight.

44
SHARES
45
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterWhatsapp

A young burns victim can finally sleep with her eyes closed after a charity arranged for her to have major surgery – to give her EYELIDS.

Perlucia Mathebula, seven, had skin graft to rebuild her eyelids at a British hospital so she can finally blink for the first time in six years.

Collect of Perlucia Mathebula, 7,  who will finally be able to blink after undergoing an operation to give her eyelids. See SWNS story SWEYES; A young burns victim can finally blink for the first time in more than six years after a charity arranged for her to have major surgery à to give her EYELIDS. Perlucia Mathebula, seven, had skin graft from her groin to rebuild her eyelids at a British hospital so she no longer has to sleep with her eyes open. The little girl was just six months old when she was horrifically burned while being looked after by her toddler sister in her home-town near Witbank near South Africa. Bronwen Jones, her legal guardian and founder of London and Johannesburg-based charity Children of Fire, praised surgeons for saving her eyesight.
Perlucia had an operation to give her eyelids

The little girl was just six months old when she was horrifically burned while being looked after by her toddler sister in her home-town near Witbank near South Africa.

Bronwen Jones, her legal guardian and founder of London and Johannesburg-based charity Children of Fire, praised surgeons for saving her eyesight.

She said: “Her mother was out and they left her in the care of a toddler.

“We can only guess that a stove or a candle was knocked over and the house was set alight.”

“She couldn’t close her eyes so it was impairing her eyesight. By making eyelids now she can close her eyes when she sleeps.”

An anaesthetist checks Perlucia Mathebula, 7, out before her operation. Perlucia will finally be able to blink after undergoing an operation to give her eyelids. See SWNS story SWEYES; A young burns victim can finally blink for the first time in more than six years after a charity arranged for her to have major surgery à to give her EYELIDS. Perlucia Mathebula, seven, had skin graft from her groin to rebuild her eyelids at a British hospital so she no longer has to sleep with her eyes open. The little girl was just six months old when she was horrifically burned while being looked after by her toddler sister in her home-town near Witbank near South Africa. Bronwen Jones, her legal guardian and founder of London and Johannesburg-based charity Children of Fire, praised surgeons for saving her eyesight.
Perlucia is checked out before her operation
Collect of Perlucia Mathebula, 7,  who will finally be able to blink after undergoing an operation to give her eyelids. See SWNS story SWEYES; A young burns victim can finally blink for the first time in more than six years after a charity arranged for her to have major surgery à to give her EYELIDS. Perlucia Mathebula, seven, had skin graft from her groin to rebuild her eyelids at a British hospital so she no longer has to sleep with her eyes open. The little girl was just six months old when she was horrifically burned while being looked after by her toddler sister in her home-town near Witbank near South Africa. Bronwen Jones, her legal guardian and founder of London and Johannesburg-based charity Children of Fire, praised surgeons for saving her eyesight.
The surgery was a big success

The operation at the McIndoe Surgical Centre, in East Grinstead, West Sussex, on Monday last week, will stop the little girl’s eyesight being ruined by dryness.

Perlucia is to return to South Africa in November and will spend Christmas with her family.

But Bronwen hopes she will return to the UK next year so she can have further plastic surgery to her hands, which were also damaged in the blaze, leaving her fingers fused together.

Bronwen, of Pinner, north west London, said: “She also wants her fire-fused fingers to be separated so that she can do up her own buttons.

“Thanks to the surgeons at the McIndoe Surgical Centre her dreams are coming closer to being a reality.”

Bronwen, 58, has one biological son and has cared for hundreds of children through the charity she set up 20 years ago.

The charity helps children affected by fire, which is sadly common in South Africa due to the use of highly-flammable substances to light and heat homes.

Collect of Perlucia Mathebula, 7,  who will finally be able to blink after undergoing an operation to give her eyelids. See SWNS story SWEYES; A young burns victim can finally blink for the first time in more than six years after a charity arranged for her to have major surgery à to give her EYELIDS. Perlucia Mathebula, seven, had skin graft from her groin to rebuild her eyelids at a British hospital so she no longer has to sleep with her eyes open. The little girl was just six months old when she was horrifically burned while being looked after by her toddler sister in her home-town near Witbank near South Africa. Bronwen Jones, her legal guardian and founder of London and Johannesburg-based charity Children of Fire, praised surgeons for saving her eyesight.

Previous Post

Could this be the world’s dullest calendar?

Next Post

Mum refused refund from easyJet despite being diagnosed with breast cancer

RealFix

RealFix

Real Fix is a completely free true-life magazine. Check out our Facebook page for more videos and clips, or download our New Real-Fix Podcast for astonishing interviews with some of the real people behind our amazing stories.

Next Post
Mum refused refund from easyJet despite being diagnosed with breast cancer

Mum refused refund from easyJet despite being diagnosed with breast cancer

You Must See

Carer who couldn’t afford to drive to work quit £14k a year job to earn £160k on OnlyFans – and travels round Europe in Mercedes

Carer who couldn’t afford to drive to work quit £14k a year job to earn £160k on OnlyFans – and travels round Europe in Mercedes

February 3, 2023
Ex-serviceman with life-limiting condition got the chance to pat a pony from his widow after nursing staff learned of his passion for horses

Ex-serviceman with life-limiting condition got the chance to pat a pony from his widow after nursing staff learned of his passion for horses

February 3, 2023
UK’s youngest daredevil competing in national motocross races – aged four

UK’s youngest daredevil competing in national motocross races – aged four

February 2, 2023
5 Blue Cheeses That Every Food Lover Should try

5 Blue Cheeses That Every Food Lover Should try

January 31, 2023
Bus-obsessed girl got the birthday surprise of a lifetime – her own private trip to school in a double decker

Bus-obsessed girl got the birthday surprise of a lifetime – her own private trip to school in a double decker

January 31, 2023
Charity’s oldest ever pair of dogs with combined age of 34 find forever home after previously being turned down for being too elderly

Charity’s oldest ever pair of dogs with combined age of 34 find forever home after previously being turned down for being too elderly

January 30, 2023
  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Videos
  • Relationships
  • Bizarre
  • Crime
  • Health
  • Inspiration
  • Love This

Real Fix is a trading style of South West News Service Limited.
Copyright © 2022 South West News Service Limited.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Videos
  • Relationships
  • Bizarre
  • Crime
  • Health
  • Inspiration
  • Love This

Real Fix is a trading style of South West News Service Limited.
Copyright © 2022 South West News Service Limited.

googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('sticky'); });