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>> Welcome back. What can you
imagine? One day you’re a
vibrant, outgoing, hardworking persing, supporting your
persing, supporting your
family. Then suddenly rapidly
just rapidly. And all the
sudden you begin to lose your
eyesight to the point where you
are legally blind. Doug Barry
of Highlands, Texas doesn’t
have to imagine that he lived
that scary scenario. And like
so many other Texans who can’t
afford health insurance, that
just wasn’t a lot that you can
do about it. That’s right.
And that’s until he heard about
the bill Spencer Bill Spencer
solves it. Team right away.
Doug and his wife wrote a bill
for help. And tonight that has
entirely new, far brighter future. Take a look.
future. Take a look.
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>> At 51 years old doesn’t
varias been a lot of things in his life. Wild Rock and Roll
his life. Wild Rock and Roll
drummer a carpenter, a
maintenance man biker. But the one thing you never dreamed
one thing you never dreamed
he’d be is blind.
>> That was
terrible. Frightening I don’t
like not being able to see
something happen. And I went
blind. >> It turns out the due to a
>> It turns out the due to a
rapidly accelerating case of
cataracts. Doug, become legally
blind in both of his eyes with
no health insurance, he
couldn’t afford cataract surgery and without his
surgery and without his
eyesight.
>> He couldn’t work when
Carpenter. you know, I have
them seeding. These are my tools. He couldn’t drive.
tools. He couldn’t drive.
You can work. When bad. Really,
really quick.
>> And rents coming up.
Suddenly drowning in debt and
desperate. Doug and his wife Jenny Wild $5,000 enough to
Jenny Wild $5,000 enough to
remove the cataracts from one
of his eyes, but not both.
Now, 3 years later, Ducks been
told he has to have surgery on
that. Second, I we’re risk never getting his eyesight
never getting his eyesight
back. So Doug contacted the
Spencer solves it team.
>> I good morning high that the
capital and now.
>> Thanks to the generosity of Doctor Michael Kaplan of the
Doctor Michael Kaplan of the
Berkeley. I center a specialist
and cataracts who’s done
charitable surgeries of all
over the world. We’re going to get Doug, the surgery he
to get Doug, the surgery he
desperately needs to restore
his sight. Absolutely free.
Just look straight ahead.
And we’re going to just take a look at your eyes, your
look at your eyes, your
characters so big. You can see
the back of your eye. And so,
you know, as long as the rest
of the eyes in good shape, then
you should be able to gain the
vision he had for the cataract. Come back.
Come back.
>> Now all Doug can do is pray.
>> Right now I’m overwhelmed.
>> Please, Lord, let it happen.
A goes. I fixed.
>> We’ll get back to Doug in a
moment. But first, how
prevalent are cataracts?
According to the National Eye
Institute, more than 24 million
Americans over 40 suffer from
cataracts. And at age, 75 50%
of us will have them.
>> What you have in this little
microscope here, how do you
know if you’re developing
cataracts, Doctor Matthew
McCauley explains sometimes
their nighttime vision will
start to change. That might
have some glare with headlights
and street lights and things
like that.
>> I mean, I feel like they can
see the distances and judge
distances a well at night.
>> Getting back to Doug.
Now it is finally the big day
and Doug is wheeled into
surgery.
>> Live.
>> First, Doctor Caplan makes
an incision and begins to break
up the cataract with what looks
like a tiny drill. Then he
appears to be backing away.
What’s left of that cataract?
It’s actually the clouded lens
of the eye, which he then good
places with an artificial leg.
Okay on that. It within 15
minutes. It’s all over. And
just one week later, Doug says
he can see me.
>> I’m feeling amazing. It’s
like a whole new world. Again.
And I’m so grateful for.
Berkeley. I center and Doctor Caplan and you, Mister Bill
Caplan and you, Mister Bill
Spencer, thank you so much.
We have in my life. But
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>> it’s pretty saying that. I want you to know that Doug is
I want you to know that Doug is
one of the kindest people I’ve
ever met in my life. Both he
and his wife had prayed for
years that he will be able to
get this eyesight and get it
back again. And now he has it
tonight. I want to send out my
most heartfelt thanks to Doctor
Michael Kaplan and all the
people at the Berkeley. I
center the work so hard to make
all this happen. The doctors, a
Berkeley, tell me that
cataracts are caused by age and
years of cumulative exposure
to sunlight. One way to try and
prevent cataracts is to wear sunglasses as often as possible
sunglasses as often as possible
and to begin wearing them as
early an age as possible.
I’m Bill Spencer. The Spencer
solves it team.
>> What a great story. What,
sir, that is so fascinating. My goodness. Yeah. He’s the
My goodness. Yeah. He’s the
sweetest guy. I’m Tellin best.
Incredibly sweet. He was crying
there at the yeah. It’s
something tears in his brand-new. All right. Yeah, but
brand-new. All right. Yeah, but
he hasn’t great job, though.
Great, great job, OK?
>> So helping people is Bill’s
passion. As you can tell by
now. So if you want to reach out to his Spencer solves it
out to his Spencer solves it
team, here’s the phone number.
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