A BABY girl is now recovering from a rare eye cancer which was only picked up because her mother refused to accept she had a normal childhood squint.
Mum Helen Castley, 24, of Green Acres, Penistone, says 14-month-old Evie Ecob is 'a little fighter'. She endured months of treatment including having her left eye taken out.
Evie had a normal birth but at three months, Helen spotted a squint. She took her to the doctor who told her it was just a normal childhood squint which she'd grow out of.
"I went a couple of times. Even I thought I was being a bit neurotic," she said.
But it was a third examination by a GP which picked something up in the eye. Helen had taken her other daughter, Gracie, to the doctor over a cough and asked if he could look at Evie's eye while she was there.
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