{"id":629217,"date":"2026-10-13T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629217\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:12:10","slug":"cornea-transplant-recipient-calls-eye-donation-enormous-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629217\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornea transplant recipient calls eye donation &#8216;enormous gift&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head was among recipients, donor families and medical professionals who shared their experiences at a special service at Gloucester Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iain Dobie&#8217;s wife Alison died unexpectedly from sepsis in 2022 and had volunteered to donate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My wife gave her eyes so that someone might see,&#8221; said Dobie. &#8220;It feels some compensation during a time of mourning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We got a letter some time after she died that explained how a 68-year-old man had received one of her eyes and the other had gone to medical research into eye diseases and treatments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It gave, even at that most agonising time, some solace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dobie wants to encourage families to consent to donation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a long waiting list for eye transplants, more than other organs and tissues,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know they&#8217;re meant to be the windows to the soul and people don&#8217;t like to think of their eyes being lost, but what I would say is bizarrely, eyes, because they&#8217;re so personal, they&#8217;re the greatest gift they could give.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head was among recipients, donor families and medical professionals who shared their experiences at a special service at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-629217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}