“She had passed her newborn sight check, and I was advised the redness could be eczema,” Katherine O’Neill said.
A 6-month-old girl’s rare retinal cancer was mistakenly diagnosed by doctors as eczema — and her eye was eventually removed.
Amelia is a twin and was born prematurely, so she had quite a lot of doctor’s appointments, where O’Neill kept mentioning Katherine O’Neill, 42, noticed her daughter, Amelia, had been rubbing her left eye since she was born in September 2020.Amelia’s grandmother was the first one to point out her unusual looking eye.But when the UK tot was 6 months old, in March 2021, her grandmother noticed that“I hadn’t noticed anything about the actual eye before, but under the spotlights in the kitchen, you could see that it was protruding and looked kind of dead,” O’Neill said.
The tumor shrunk, but the cancer eventually began to grow again, which meant Amelia needed four chemotherapy injections in her eye.
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