Woman's Day Magazine NZ

LAURA’S NEW LIFE ‘I FEEL LIKE I HAVE WINGS!’

Imagine losing your sight over a few years, but no-one really knowing why. Now imagine doing so while you’re 30, with a husband, two young children, a full-time job and a horse you love entering into endurance-riding events.

That’s what happened to Christchurch mother Laura Kelmere, now 32, who has suffered from compromised vision since she was a child.

“I started wearing glasses when I was three,” says Laura, who was born and raised in Limerick, in the west of Ireland.

But having

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