Couldn't another possibility is that her blindness was indeed the result of physical damage to her brain and her regained vision was the result of using other n

Couldn't another possibility is that her blindness was indeed the result of physical damage to her brain and her regained vision was the result of using other neural pathways in the brain. I remember reading an article not too long ago where people clinically blind people from birth were able to recognize visual stimuli subconsciously. Similarly she may not be able to consciously see new things as much as have an intuition about what parts of her vision are still working. The mind is really an amazing thing and this combination could bring to light discoveries about how both vision and various mental disorders affect the brain.