Sunset Eyes
Up until ten weeks old, I was a happy and healthy baby. It all began when my Mum, being a nurse, realised that my vision was not as it should have been, and that I had ‘sunset eyes.’ Of course, this was very alarming for my parents so they took me to my GP to get it checked out. They were advised to take me straight to hospital, where I had an MRI scan, which found a tumour in the centre of my brain. The doctors, who told my parents the news was good, said that the neurosurgeons were expecting me, and my surgery was performed the next morning. After nine hours of surgery which was successful, I recovered over the next month or so. Six months later, I had a VP Shunt fitted to relieve my hydrocephalus which by this stage had become quite pronounced, meaning that I found it tough to hold my own head up.
My mum realised my vision was not as it should be