A girl with an inoperable brain tumour that causes a droop in her eye has managed to start school against all the odds. Emma Williams, 38, spotted a droop in her four-year-old daughter Peggy's left eye and took her to Royal United Hospital, Bath.
A scan showed a small lump on the tots optic nerve and after a ten-and-a-half-hour operation at Bristol Children’s Hospital, a biopsy revealed the tumour was a low grade meningioma which is a slow growing brain tumour.
Doctors have been unable to remove the tumour as it would have left Peggy with life-changing injuries so she is now monitored with regular scans and has to wear a patch over one eye to help rebuild her sight. Doctors are continuing to save the schoolgirl’s eyesight over the next two years.
