Seeing your child walk down the aisle and commit to spending the rest of their lives with the person they love is an emotional moment for all parents, but for one Pennsylvania mom, that moment was even more precious since it was a moment she thought she’d never get to see.
In 2013, mom Joy Hoke suddenly lost vision in her left eye due to a condition that causes a loss of blood flow to the optic nerve called non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION). Then just a year later in January 2014, the same thing happened to her right eye, which made her completely blind.
“I’m legally blind. I can’t drive. I can’t work. I can’t read and then I’m not going to be able to see my daughter get married or see my grandbabies,” 54-year-old Hoke said as she recalled the first things she realized she’d no longer be able to do.
Soon after going completely blind, a family friend sent Hoke’s husband, Dave, information about special glasses that allow the blind to see. The glasses, which are made by a Canadian company called eSight, cost $15,000 and were unfortunately not covered by insurance.
Hoke’s family and friends set up a GoFundMe account to raise money for the glasses, and by the end of 2015, they had raised enough to purchase them as well as donate an extra $2,000 to another blind woman raising money for the same glasses. “Every morning I’d wake up and tears would start streaming down my cheeks. I could not believe it,” Hoke said.
“Without the glasses my visual acuity was 20/400 and with the glasses my acuity was 20/40,” Hoke said. And thanks to her special glasses, she was finally able to watch her 26-year-old daughter Lauren walk down the aisle on her wedding day.
“It was just so amazing to see my husband and my daughter and without the glasses they would have looked like just two white blobs,” Hoke said. “I felt my throat close with tears and my eyes start to well.”
“It’s such an answered prayer, from having the glasses work for me to the fundraising to seeing my daughter’s wedding, it’s all been an answer from God,” she said.
Watch the entire video below to see Hoke’s incredible reaction to seeing her daughter on her wedding day.
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