A radical brain stem surgery brought sight back to Wayne native Brian Wagner, along with a new vision of life.

Wagner was diagnosed with a cavernous malformation while in elementary school and had his first surgery as a 10-year-old, in August 1977. The condition involves a malformed blood vessel that is prone to leaking, because of a thin vascular wall that could also be less flexible. It can happen anywhere in the body, but when the condition happens in the brain it is called a cerebral cavernous malformation. The blood flowing through the brain is said to form "caverns." A hemorrhaging CCM diagnosis may not show symptoms or even require treatment and it can happen intermittently with nearly imperceptible changes, that are essentially self healing.

The almost complete blindness that hit Wagner on March 4, 2011, showed that his CCM was a ticking time bomb.

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