The parents of a six-year-old girl whose brain tumour was discovered thanks to a routine eye test have thanked Specsavers for saving their daughter’s life after a six-hour operation was required to remove the potentially deadly mass. Tanisha Castello, 31, a stay-at-home mum took her daughter, Sofia, then five, for an eye test two days after she became unwell.
At the test at Specsavers Warren Heath, an optician noticed something unusual, and the mum was urged to take Sofia to Ipswich Hospital. Once there, the youngster underwent scans and the news was broken to Tanisha and her partner Gareth Kidd-Stanton, 41, a postman, that their little girl had a brain tumour.
With no other option, Sofia went under the knife six days later in a six-hour operation to remove the mass that medics estimated had been growing for a year. Now six years old, Sofia has fully recovered and her parents credit Specsavers Warren Heath for “saving her life”.
