A mum has described how she felt the "worst pain" she'd ever felt as a parasite slithered out from what she thought was a spot above her eye. Louise Edwards woke up one morning to find what she thought was a spot or a bite.
But, as the day went on, the spot got bigger. Soon, it swelled up, causing her eye to close. So, the next day, July 23, she went to St Paul's Eye Hospital in Royal Liverpool Hospital to get it checked over.
Louise, 34, from Allerton, told the LiverpoolECHO: "I was in my house, I hadn't really been anywhere recently. I was in Turkey around a month before, and at the caravan a week before, but nothing came up in the days after.
