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Woman battles to restore her vision.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Please edit and put story on hold for TUESDAY. Run date was 9-25. Please update as necessary. Needs trims. I have bjt. Line. Thanks, Karen Kirk
PHILADELPHIA _ Sandy Peirson was socializing with friends at a Kennett Square tavern when she heard a loud noise and smelled smoke.
A few seconds passed, she said, before she realized that she had been shot. Then, "I stood up _ I was able to do that _ and I put my hand up to my eye," she said. "My friends said there was blood all over. I knew right then and there that I was blind."
It was an incomprehensible misfortune for Peirson _ the bullet destroyed her only eye. Nearly 30 years earlier, she had lost her other eye in a childhood accident involving a BB gun.
Almost a year after the second shooting, Peirson, 42, is still struggling to come to terms with her situation, and her struggle is not going well. The Chester County woman says she can't live with blindness and is pinning her hopes on a high-tech artificial-vision device offered by a doctor in Portugal but not approved for use in the United States.
To raise money for the journey to Portugal and the procedure, and to seek a measure of justice, she ...
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