The severity of the situation really dawned on us all then when my son turned to Mairead and said ‘thank you, you’ve saved my dad’s life’, and she really did'
Co Tyrone man Steven Jackson is grateful to have a new life ahead of him and it's all thanks to a visit to his local optician.
“My work takes me all over the world, I am always flying and put my headaches down to pressure from flights, and pressure from the job,” Steven explained. “Thankfully that train of thought led me to book in for an eye test at Specsavers in Omagh. I went there as it’s a trusted name, my family here used the Omagh store, and it was so accessible to me it was the obvious choice.
“I’d set my heart on a pair of Hugo Boss ones when Mairead called me back in, just 10 minutes later, to tell me she had some concerns about what the scan had picked up. There was something serious going on.” Steven’s diagnosis wasn’t a brain tumour, but it was a potentially lethal intracranial hypertension – a huge build-up of pressure due to excessive fluid on his brain caused by a blood clot, and was a ticking time bomb which, if not treated, would’ve proved fatal.
A few weeks after his diagnosis, Steven’s son Maxwell, 25, returned from holidaying in Thailand and rushed to visit his dad and family in Omagh, and they both visited Specsavers Omagh to thank Mairead personally.“The severity of the situation really dawned on us all then when my son turned to Mairead and said ‘thank you, you’ve saved my dad’s life’, and she really did.
“That was such a huge moment for me. I was so proud of him, and to be there to see him walk across that stage meant everything to me,” he said.
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