Two years ago while giving birth to her second child a rare eye disease caused Cassy Rivera to go blind.

After a risky two-hour surgery earlier this month the mother-of-two saw her youngest child for the first time after the doctors removed the bandages from her eyes.

Speaking to a local New York reporter about her newly restored vision Rivera, 36, said “I don’t want anything for Christmas, nothing will ever top this.  It’s better than anything in the world.”

In May 2005, Rivera started experiencing blurriness in her right eye and within a year, the problem had spread to her left eye and shortly thereafter she became legally blind in both eyes.

In January 2008 Rivera was unemployed, divorced and sightless, but it wasn’t too long before doctors at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary told her about an experimental surgery to correct her aggressive illness called uveitis.

Medicaid paid for half of Rivera’s $57,000 surgery and the other half was covered by volunteers at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.

On December 10, 2009 the Brooklyn woman underwent the extraordinary procedure, one that gave her a 50/50 shot at regaining her eyesight.

Dr. Michael Samson separated her left eye’s iris from the lens and used an ultrasound probe to liquefy the damaged lens and once the lens was removed, an acrylic prosthetic was put in its place.

When doctors removed the bandages from Rivera’s eyes, she kept them shut tight for a full 10 minutes afraid of what she would or would not see.

She said after taking a quick peek “It was beautiful,” she saw her doctor’s tie, then his computer then she realized, “I am going to get to see my kids today.”

She immediately rushed her to see her daughters, Alayza, 7, and Aniahya, 2, and she said that night “I watched them sleep, I watched them play. I bathed my 2-year-old daughter for the first time.”

Her plans for the future are to first get a job as a medical assistant, buy a car so she can drive again, then take her daughters to Disneyland “so I can see their faces light up.”

Alaya told reports, “This is a Christmas miracle, they really happen. You just have to believe.”