Sight test saved my life says woman after eye removal surgery

“In Sheffield I was told that if it leaked and got into my bloodstream we would have bigger problems,” she said.

“So they scheduled me to have surgery. I hadn’t time to think of anything other than trying to save my life because if it goes to my liver… that’s it.”

“Well, you grieve don’t you when you lose something. But you have to look at the other side.

“You’ve lost an eye but hopefully I’ve gained my life.”

Jacqueline’s artificial eye was then made and fitted at the Shankill Wellbeing and Treatment centre in Belfast.

“Kerry at the centre painted the eye, took a picture of my eye, a mould of my eye and she matched it up quite well I think.

“You wouldn’t notice, but I notice, obviously, because I can’t see. But when I look in the mirror I feel good.”