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...Rochester, Minn, last week, the unhappy parents of four-year-old Carolyn Joan Purcell found the "miracle" they were looking for. The little Georgia girl, threatened a fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 15) with the terrible alternatives of certain death or blindness by surgery, had been rushed to the famed Mayo Clinic by Atlanta Shriners. The Mayo doctors had pushed waiting patients aside to consider Carolyn Joan's case, and, after a painstaking ten-hour examination, had pronounced their verdict: Carolyn Joan was free of cancer, needed no operation...
...hand of God moving to stay the hand of the surgeon," said Carolyn Joan's mother...
...week's end, a group of Atlanta Masons arranged for Carolyn Joan to be flown to the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for further examination...
...Purcell and her husband Frank, an unemployed stone mason, hurried Carolyn Joan to a doctor. But the mother could not bring herself to believe the dreadful medical alternatives: the child would have to lose both eyes, or die. Mrs. Purcell's first baby had died "sudden like" in 1937, and it seemed impossible that God could permit such cruelty twice. She took her daughter home, put her to bed, and sat up beside her, night after night, waiting for her to get better...
...Carolyn Joan's eyesight got steadily worse. Last week the Purcells brought the little girl to Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, to seek hope from a team of four specialists. After sending Carolyn Joan to play in the hospital corridor, the specialists confirmed the original diagnosis. The little girl had retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eyes. The doctors urged the parents to let them remove both eyes immediately...