Gabi Hollows — the girl who helped others see
Fierce Girls
ABC Australia
4.5 • 956 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
When she was a kid Gabi Hollows needed an operation to fix her crossed eyes. As a grown up she kept fixing eyes — just not her own. So far Gabi has helped more than two million people across the world regain their sight. Narrated by Australian ballet dancer, Ella Havelka.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the story of the girl who helped others see. |
| 0:04.0 | This is the story of the girl who helped others see, Gabby Hollows, read by dancer Ella Havelka. I spy with my little eye something beginning with O. |
| 0:27.0 | O O! |
| 0:28.0 | O! O! |
| 0:31.0 | Now I spy with my little I something beginning with P for R you got it and I spy with R. |
| 0:44.0 | Rednoscope. |
| 0:46.0 | It may not sound like an ordinary game of I spy, |
| 0:49.0 | but Gabrielle O'Sullivan wasn't an ordinary kid. |
| 0:53.3 | Cross-eyed, her parents called it. |
| 0:56.3 | Her eyes pointed inwards as though she was constantly looking at her nose. |
| 1:00.3 | We better get you to the doctor, Gabby. |
| 1:03.0 | They said, a special doctor for eyes. |
| 1:06.0 | That doctor was called an ophthalmologist. |
| 1:09.0 | And when Gabby opened the door to his surgery, |
| 1:12.0 | it was like stepping into Wonderland. |
| 1:15.2 | Every piece of equipment intrigued her. |
| 1:18.5 | From the ophthalmoscopes and the retinoscopes, |
| 1:21.4 | those are instruments with lights in the end. Use to look inside the eyes. To the |
| 1:25.6 | pharopter. That's a contraption, kind of like a space helmet. Use to test different lenses |
| 1:31.7 | on the eyes. |
| 1:33.0 | The ophthalmologist used the pharopter to find some glasses to help Gabby's condition. |
| 1:38.0 | But she didn't take great care of them. |
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