TV legend June Brown has had her vision miraculously restored.
The EastEnders icon, who plays Dot Cotton, says she is now able to see patterns and recognise her children again after a 60-second operation that has saved her eyesight.
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The 90-year-old actress underwent the Eyemax Mono technique to treat macular degeneration.
For those not familiar with the age-related condition, it’s when a part of the retina called the macula is damaged which results in the eye no longer being able to see fine details in close range or from far away.
“I can see people’s faces and recognise my children again,” she told The Sunday Express.
“I can now distinguish colours and the pattern on a rug that I couldn’t see before.
“I can read again and I don’t think I would be able to see at all if I hadn’t had the operation.”
June was first diagnosed with the condition over ten years ago but the disease accelerated so much that last year it had to be written into her character’s storyline in EastEnders.
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“[My eyesight] is slowly improving all the time.
“I think my brain is teaching my peripheral vision to come into operation.”
The lens surgery, which helps readjust the nerve signals in the brain to access the remaining healthy parts of retina, can take up to five minutes.
It will be made available to eye surgeons across the UK and 25 countries in Europe from next week.