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Toddler whose bloodshot eye turned out to be aggressive cancer gets ‘amazing’ prosthetic eye after losing her sight [Video]

A BABY girl whose bloodshot eye turned out to be cancer has been given a brand new form of prosthetic eye.

The prosthetic for 20-month-old Nuala Mulholland, from Liverpool, is only a little bigger than a pound coin.

Nula with her new prosthetic eye, designed by clinicians at Alder Hey Children’s HospitalCredit: PA
Doctors used a novel method to design and make her prosthetic eye, which is no bigger than a pound coinCredit: PA

The process of making it also meant the toddler did not have to go under anaesthetic, which was a “relief” to parents Megan Mulholland, 36, and Richard Mulholland, 39.

Nuala was diagnosed with a soft tissue tumour that affects about six people in England each year when she was 10 months old.

Megan first noticed that something was not right with her daughter’s eye in 2023, when it became bloodshot.

It was initially thought Nuala had subconjunctival haemorrhage, a usually harmless condition where …

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