A woman who thought she just needed new glasses was shocked to discover she had a brain tumour.
Caroline Wrixon, 40, booked an appointment with a Boots optician to test her vision. But she was shocked when tests revealed she had a grade 2 atypical meningioma tumour pressing on her eye, which was distorting her vision. She had to have her hair shaved and was left with a huge scar when surgeons removed the mass - but is now doing well and awaiting the all clear.
Project manager Caroline, from Hounslow, west London, said: "I knew something was wrong by the way the optician was going through my eye test. In the last part of my test he showed me a house on the screen and asked if the path was straight and it was but when he covered one eye the path became winding.
"I later found out this because he could see an optic eye was swollen as the tumour was pressing on it and distorting what I could see. I was overwhelmed by the news because I had no symptoms. I didn't have headaches just a slight visual impairment which I thought was because I needed a new pair of glasses."
Caroline Wrixon after her lifesaving surgery (Caroline Wrixon/SWNS)Caroline booked a routine eye test at Boots days before Christmas 2020 thinking she needed a new prescription. She had a CT scan on New Year's Eve which revealed the tumour which can grow fast and become cancerous. Caroline was booked in for her lifesaving operation at St George's Hospital, south London, on January 18 2021.
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She was discharged four days later and went on to have radiotherapy. She is now under the care of Royal Marsden Hospital where she will have regular checks until she is given the all clear.
"Everyone at St George's was absolutely brilliant," Caroline said. "My clinical nurse was fantastic and in fact everyone I have met along this journey from my optician to my surgeon have been good. It makes you realise how incredible the NHS is and it is the reason I am alive."
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