Stories To Inspire Us All
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma In March 2017, our world came crashing down when we were told our sweet 9-month-old daughter, Braelyn, was diagnosed with an eye cancer called retinoblastoma. We scheduled an appointment with a pediatric ophthalmologist after noticing that her eyes would shake when she tried to …
Diagnosis: Coats’ Disease Tina had no idea about any dangerous eye conditions in children nor did she know about the “glow” (leukocoria) until she posted a video and picture of her son, Miguel, on her Facebook page back in March of 2016. Her close friend messaged …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Cannon was born on October 1, 2012; perfect, healthy, and immediately spoiled by two older sisters. We did not notice anything unusual about him, nor detect anything off in pictures until January 2013. I noticed he did not track toys well and while I had “that” feeling …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Nolan was born in February 2016, a very smiley, active, and happy baby. However, when he was just a few months old, Nolan’s parents, Matt and Brittany, began to notice that his eyes would occasionally roll backwards. He would also cry out as if …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Jayden’s mother, Kristen, says that he was a healthy and active toddler. However, from very early on she noticed a consistent glow in his right eye in the flash photos she took of him. She found the Glow strange but did not know that it could …
Diagnosis: Bilateral Retinoblastoma Jennifer and Grant’s second daughter, Hadley, was a healthy and very happy baby. However, when Hadley turned five months old, Jennifer started to notice that Hadley’s eye would occasionally drift. This “lazy eye” was very slight and only on occasion. So infrequent that …
Diagnosis: Unilateral Retinoblastoma My son was diagnosed with unilateral retinoblastoma on March 4th 2017 at the age of 8 months old after his daycare provider mentioned seeing a glow in his right eye. Xander (we call him Xan Man) began treatment immediately in Memphis Tennessee. He …
Diagnosis: Bilateral Retinoblastoma Austin was constantly getting sick and going to the doctor’s office. The doctors initially told me I was being a hypochondriac but Austin got extremely sick the night of his first birthday. We took him to the doctor’s that day and then to …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma Last September, Diana and her husband Bob were thrilled to welcome their second daughter, Holly, into the world. Holly was born completely healthy, but Diana and Bob were anxious to have Holly’s eyes checked. Holly’s three year old sister, Hannah, had been diagnosed with …
Diagnosis: Retinoblastoma “There’s something in her eye. I don’t know if it’s a tumor or something else, but you need to get this checked out RIGHT AWAY!”…. And that’s what he told me. He was the doctor, and I thought I WAS getting her checked out. …
