🗣 ‘I got someone at the hostel to drive me straight to A&E because I just knew something was not right.
Laura Hawkins, 24, woke up one day while travelling across Australia in ‘excruciating’ pain.
At the hospital Laura was sent straight to an optimologist, who discovered that Laura had a corneal ulcer, which left untreated could have left her blind.Laura had started wearing glasses when she was 10 years old and made the switch to contact lenses when she was 16. Despite three cancelled flights due to the pandemic, Laura was finally able to return home to her family with a huge eye patch over her eye on the plane on March 26.
‘My peripheral vision and central to the right vision in my right eye, it’s now like there’s a white sheet over it.‘I can’t really see that well out of that eye, and especially when it’s night time and there’s bright lights, I just can’t see. I tried driving at night and I just can’t do that now.
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