Originally posted on October 25, 2019
In my continuing quest to find interesting stories and
combine them with outstanding songs or cover versions, I learned about this
fact. It was on this day in 1966 that Jeff Healey; who was adopted as an
infant, had surgery to remove his right eye. His left eye was removed four
months later. Both eyes were replaced with ocular prostheses. Healey who was
diagnosed with retinoblastoma as an infant, was seven months old at the time of
his first surgery. While this process gives rise to an element of sadness, it
is what he and his family did with the hand he was dealt that tells the real
story.
When Jeff Healey was four years old, his father gave him his
first guitar. He learned to play it on his lap. By the time he was nine he had
begun to develop a level of notoriety. He was featured on…
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