When Nuala Mulholland was ten months old, her mother noticed that something was amiss because her eye looked bloodshot. The child, who is now twenty months old, was diagnosed.
At first, it was believed that Nuala, a resident of Liverpool, had subconjunctival hemorrhage, a generally benign ailment in which a tiny blood vessel bursts behind the eye’s clear surface.
However, her eye soon began to protrude, forcing her mother Megan to take her to the hospital.
A few days later, the family received word that she had a rare kind of cancer that only affects six people on average.
The 36-year-old Mrs. Mulholland stated, “It was just horrible.”
I still didn’t think it was as severe as cancer when I took her to A&E.
The family was informed that radiotherapy could have long-term effects on Nuala due to her advanced age; therefore, they decided against having the eye removed.
