When Ann Flinn went for an eye test in April, the opticians found something suspicious...
When Ann Flinn went for an eye test in April, the opticians found something suspicious.
Doctors suspected it was a meningioma – a non-cancerous tumour in the membranes that cover the brain.‘I needed new sunglasses for my holiday to Benidorm and needed a test because I’d gone two years [since the last one].‘The eye test potentially saved my life because anything could have happened, and if not saved my life, it certainly saved my vision.Just a week after the scan revealed the grape-sized tumour, Ann had surgery to remove it.
‘It was about three days after surgery that it dawned on me how serious this thing was and what I’d just been through‘But people are quite shocked at how well I look considering the style of surgery I’ve had and how severe it was.‘ Eye tests are not as trivial as people seem to think’ Ann said: ‘I was warned that it could be cancerous, because of where it was they were 90% sure that it was the meningioma but there could be a possibility that it’s not.‘Don’t put these things off. Us women, we do it all the time. I know some of my friends who are my age who are still putting off smear tests.Specsavers’ clinical services director, Giles Edmonds, said: ‘Ann’s story highlights why a routine eye test, every two years, is so important.
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