Diagnosis: Coats’ Disease Christina says that during the first years of Jake’s life, he was very sensitive to light. She did not think much of this sensitivity in her son as he was very young and she thought that light sensitivity would be normal. When Jake …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Yesenia will tell you that her son, Gabriel, is her favorite superhero. Gabriel was born a very healthy little boy. For the first year of his life, Yesenia and her husband had no concerns about his physical well-being. However, just a few months …
Diagnosis: Coats’ Disease Melissa and her husband noticed that their son, Grant, began to develop a wandering eye when he was about three years old. Over time, this misalignment became more and more noticeable. Concerned, they began looking for a nearby doctor to have him checked …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Emily gave birth to her son, Baylen, 13 weeks prematurely. Due to his early arrival, Baylen spent the first five months of his life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). There Baylen was thoroughly examined and …
Diagnosis: Amblyopia Elizabeth saw a story on her Facebook page that grabbed her attention. It was about a little girl who had “the Glow” in the pupil of her eye in her flash photos. She read that “the Glow” could be an indication of a rare form …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma On a Friday in August, when Poppy was 4 months old, we went to the pediatrician’s office for a well check. It was not our regular pediatrician but I voiced our concerns about the strange “cat-like reflex” that we kept seeing at different angles, …
Diagnosis: Coats’ Disease When Miles was about 12 months old, Lauran and Barry started to notice “the Glow” in the flash photos they took of their son. He was a very active, healthy and happy little boy. Lauran and Barry had never heard of “the Glow” …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Not many people were aware of the Glow in 1967, let alone the dozen or so conditions it could represent. Therefore, when Sylvia’s parents first noticed a Glow in their daughter’s eye, they were far more intrigued than alarmed. Not only was Sylvia …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma It was a perfectly normal Monday. Before naptime, Lauren settled in the big rocking chair with her eight-month-old son, Theo, on her lap to read him a book before putting him down to sleep. Theo looked up at her and, and just for a …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma In May last year my partner Ollie first noticed Noah’s eye had an unusual glow/reflection. A few days passed and he kept saying he could see this weird glow but I couldn’t see it from the naked eye like Ollie could. One day it …
