'I noticed something in my toddler's eye, then my world turned upside down'

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A mum and dad noticed a glare in their daughter's eye before she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Sophie and Stephen McKenna noticed light reflecting in daughter Lola's eye.

The two-year-old had also started falling over a lot more, the Liverpool Echo reports. Sophie, 32, took Lola, now aged three, to see the GP in May this year who urgently referred her to an optician.

Lola was then referred to a number of specialist hospitals before being diagnosed with retinoblastoma. Sophie said her world 'turned upside down' when her toddler received the cancer diagnosis but described her as an 'absolute warrior'.

Describing her daughter's initial symptoms, the mum, from Woodchurch, said: "Lola wasn't poorly and never complained of her eye hurting. READ NEXT: Girl, 8, dies from sepsis after GP sends her home with Ibuprofen prescription "We never really noticed that her sight had changed but she had started falling over a lot more than usual, we just put it down to her being a toddler." After discovering what the glare could be Sophie immediately took Lola to see her GP who told her to urgently visit an optician.