A woman who had her eye removed as a teenager has gone viral for her hilarious skits – proving school bullies who called her names wrong. Sarah Harris, 36, a retail manager from Manchester, suffers from neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumours to form on the nerve tissue, which she was diagnosed with from birth.
After she was born, medics also discovered that she had an infantile optic glaucoma, a rare birth defect which prevents fluid from draining, causing pressure behind her eyes. Growing up, she would often receive stares from other kids in her class and recalls people avoiding her during playtime, where she found it hard to fit in as she felt “different.”
At five, she visited a specialist at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, who discovered that her condition had completely eroded her eye socket and that her brain was pressing up against the eye. Years later, at 16, after years of constant pain with no end in sight, she made the life-changing decision to have her eye removed.
