The family of a 21-month-old girl say they were “shocked” to find their daughter’s “shiny and golden” eye was actually a cancerous tumour. Saint-Hallie, from Waltham-Cross in Hertfordshire , was diagnosed with a type of eye cancer in March after her parents noticed a sparkle in her eye and changes in her behaviour. Her father Jaden Kish, 37, originally thought her golden eye simply meant she had different eye colours when he spotted it in November.
But after visiting the GP to get it checked, he was told it was a cancerous tumour and Saint-Hallie was diagnosed with retinoblastoma. “Around November time, we noticed her left eye was sparkly and shiny,” the father of three told The Independent . “We thought maybe she was a child with special different coloured eyes but just to be sure we rang the GP.
” Jaden had also noticed his daughter wasn’t allowing people to pick her up, but had not considered she could have cancer. The support worker said: “I was very, very surprised when they told me she had cancer. I didn’t believe it at first but then they reassured me and sent me to Great Ormond Street Hospital.
” Saint-Hallie had surgery to remove her eye in the days following her diagnosis and has been undergoing intensive chemotherapy since April. Jaden described her symptoms as “heartbreaking” as she has now been left unable to walk due to the impact of the treatment. She also vomits frequently, is sore and cannot eat or drink without a feeding tube.
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