Daughter Donates Corneal Stem Cells to Give Mom Better Vision
Debra Astrug was struggling. She couldn’t read or drive, she worried about crossing the street to get the mail, and she couldn’t draw.
“I’m an artist, and I couldn’t draw. I couldn’t at all,” said the 57-year old Elgin woman, whose vision had been deteriorating for six years, becoming blurry as the result of graft versus host disease, which was a side effect of a successful bone marrow transplant from her sister in 1996 to …