A seven-year-old who struggled to see the board at school and kept bumping into other children in the playground was told by doctors she had a lazy eye, but actually had a terminal brain tumour. Sarah Atif had problems with her vision and kept complaining she was tired, and her mum was growing concerned.
Sarah's teachers also raised the alarm when she started writing much bigger in her school books, and she was referred to hospital for an eye test. Mum Uroos told MyLondon: "Up until December 2022, everything was perfect and Sarah was doing really well. It was after she had vision screening at school that everything changed.
"It was thought she was having problems with her eyesight and perhaps had a lazy eye, so I was given an appointment at Moorfields Eye Centre in Finsbury.
