A girl named Stella Robson had came down with a swollen eye, and her parents brushed it off as an ordinary eye infection that soon would go away. But it did not. The 6-year-old’s eye only continued to swell, despite a clinic doctor claiming that it was nothing to worry about. But it was.
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Desperate, Stella’s mother, Gaylene Robson, decided to consult an ophthalmologist who was working at Royal Children’s Hospital located in Melbourne. A CT scan was carried out to find the cause of Stella’s swollen eye.
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The scan showed a bell-shaped tumor which was rapidly growing at an alarming rate in between Stella’s eye and her brain. It was cancerous to boot.
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Stella was diagnosed with Langerhans cell histiocytosis, a rare bone tumor. This was devastating news for Stella’s family, as it required a high amount of risk.
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The tumor measured 1.5 cm, and it was nested in between Stella’s orbital bone and her eye. If left untouched, Stella could lose her sense of sight!
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