Toddler Loses An Eye After Doctors Failed To Spot Her Cancer

A mother has recounted how her daughter lost an eye after it took 18 months for the doctors to diagnose the child's rare cancer. She also believed that the child might have been blind for a long time but the medical professionals just didn't trust her "mother's intuition."

Stephanie Beasley, from Tamworth said, her little Ezmai was only nine months when she first raised her concerns. However, eye doctors discharged her child with good vision and advised the worried mom to come back after six months. "Ezmai had a lazy eye and we spoke to a health visitor and then took her to the pre-school vision team but they told me to come back in six months," Mrs. Beasley told Birmingham Mail.

Nevertheless, Stephanie's instincts just kept on telling her that there is something wrong with her child's eyes, so she brought her baby to another clinic. The doctor, however, couldn't find anything wrong with Ezmai.

Eventually, she was referred to Birmingham Children's Hospital and it is where they found out that Ezmai had a retinoblastoma. Hence, she needed to undergo a life-saving surgery.

Thus, in October last year, doctors removed Ezmai's one eye. After the surgery, the child rapidly recovered and now wears an artificial eye. Moreover, Stephanie said the operation hasn't changed Ezmai a bit and she is still energetic and outgoing.

Now, Mrs. Beasley is supporting Childhood Eye Cancer Trust to get a faster diagnosis of such rare cancer that took her child's eye. And according to the institution, every year, around 50 to 60 children in the U.K. who are being diagnosed with retinoblastoma. Almost all of the patients survive, but sadly there are some children who have lost their eyes. For some cases, about 21 percent of the kids with the said condition waited for six months or longer before doctors identified such cancer.