‘She’s in so much pain and I don’t know if she can cope.’
New mum Louise Bice became used to receiving compliments about her baby girl’s “beautiful big blue eyes”.
But she was later diagnosed with bilateral congenital glaucoma — a genetic abnormality which puts growing pressure on the optic nerve and she was sent to hospital for urgent surgery.Aretria had a four-hour surgery at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in the UK in June to relieve the pressure on her eye — but a follow-up test showed the operation had failed.
“Specialists had to do horrific tests on her and I learned she had already lost some vision in both eyes.”
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