A teenager who noticed her eyelid was drooping thought it was due to drinking alcohol, but later discovered it was a brain tumor.
During a Facetime chat, Megan Barker’s boyfriend was the first to point out that her eyes looked “uneven.”
The 19-year-old told the news service SWNS, “My boyfriend said to me, ‘There’s something wrong with your eyes,’ and he said they weren’t even.”
But travel agent Megan initially blamed it on having a few drinks — until her family noticed her left eye was drooping three weeks later, on Christmas Day.
“There [were] eight of us there and every person had asked what was wrong with my eye.”
She further noted, “This is when I think I first started realizing it wasn’t just me that was noticing the change in it.”
Teen thought her ‘wonky eyes’ were down to party pre-drinks – the truth was much worsehttps://t.co/y6cklHDXC6
— The Evening Times (@TheEveningTimes) March 5, 2018
In late December, CT scans and X-rays revealed a mass pressing on her left eye socket.
Doctors decided the tumor was too big and proceeded to perform a bifrontal craniotomy in February.
“It was really scary and stressful, but they said because it was affecting my vision, they couldn’t just leave it,” she said.
Surgeons had to saw open her skull and peel back her face to remove the mass, which had been crushing her eye socket.
Related: Hundreds Help Sick Boy Celebrate His Favorite Month
“They pulled my skin from my face down, cut the top part of my skull out, reconstructed the socket, took the mass and the sinus out, and then put the skull back together with pins,” the British teenager explained.
She is recovering at home and awaiting test results on the growth, which doctors suspect is a mass of calcium.
This Fox News piece is used by permission.
Read more at Fox News:
America’s Longest-Working Rosie the Riveter Getting the Film Treatment?
Chip and Joanna Gaines’ New Show, ‘Fixer Upper: Behind the Design,’ Goes Behind the Scenes
Emma Watson Jokes She Needs Proofreader After She Debuts Feminist Tattoo with Grammatical Error
Join the Discussion
COMMENTS POLICY: We have no tolerance for messages of violence, racism, vulgarity, obscenity or other such discourteous behavior. Thank you for contributing to a respectful and useful online dialogue.