“We knew there was an issue, but we weren’t sure what it was.'
Initially, mum Jolene explained that teachers thought issues with clumsiness were related to a sensory problem and so sought help.
She added that it took a while to realise it was Evelyn’s sight: “It’s not the first thing you think of. “She was coming in from the bright outside, into darker lights indoors and she was feeling the walls.” Upon reaching hospital, doctors became concerned she didn’t have a temperature which was common with seizures and she had lost her sight rapidly the previous year.
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