19 October 2010

Onela Sqwakaya

She was 2 years old when I saw that her retina has coloured white. I took her to the Tygerberg Hospital. The doctors there diagnosed that she had cancer in her eye, Retinoblastoma. They said that the eye has been damaged beyond repair and should be removed. Onela had the eye removed soon there after.

The doctors there gave her a white ball to put in her socket, to make sure the socket does not close up.

In 2007 she received her first prosthesis at the Red Cross Hospital. It was to big for her and it was difficult to handle.

Last year, she received a prosthesis through the government funding program, and it fitted perfectly and she was very happy.

I’m glad that her facial appearance looks normal again, it really looks like her other eye.

Thank you,

Onela’s mother, Kuliswa