A Greenwich mum was able to see her two-year-old son’s face after two successful eye transplants.

Laura Grady’s eyes started misting over every morning to the point that she could no longer see her son Noah’s face anymore.

The 36-year-old underwriting specialist said: “I started getting ‘morning misting’. My vision was misty on waking, but cleared during the day.

“By the time I had a transplant I couldn’t see out of my right eye. It was just grey. I could see light and dark but no definition at all.”

Laura needed an eye transplant but currently the NHS eye banks are 21 per cent below the level needed to supply hospitals.

NHS Blood and Transplant needs 70 donations a week to meet the demand for sight saving transplants but there is a regular shortfall in donations.

Thankfully for Laura, she was able to have two cornea transplants for her undiagnosed illness.

She said: “After the transplants I can see my two year old son Noah’s lovely little face.

“I feel forever grateful to my donor and their family. Words are not enough to express my gratitude.”

Almost anyone can donate their eyes for cornea transplants when they die, but they are also the part of the body that the most people say they do not want to donate when recording their donation preferences on the NHS organ donor register.

Helen Gillan, general manager for tissue and eye services at NHSBT, said: “Donating sight means there can be light after darkness.

“But too many people spent World Sight Day [October 12] unable to see their families due to a national shortage of donors.

“Our eye banks are currently well below the level we’d like to see. You can help us by saying yes to cornea donation.

“Almost anyone can donate their sight. People tell us the decision to donate brings a sense of pride and comfort.

“Please support sight donation and help patients see what they can currently only imagine.”

If you have registered but aren’t sure if you said yes to cornea donation, you can update your preferences at www.organdonation.nhs.uk