Alysia said she was "relieved" to finally have a diagnosis, and added: "I knew there was something wrong.
She was diagnosed with retinoblastoma - a rare and aggressive form of eye cancer that affects babies and young children, mainly under the age of six - in October 2015. She said: "I noticed from a photograph - she had a white glow in her eye and her eye had a glaze on it" The most common symptoms are a white glow in eye or pupil in dim lighting or when a photo is taken using a flash, and a squint. Alysia said that she noticed there was something wrong with Daisy while looking at a picture of her.
"I have been told it looks like a superhero eye, a dragon's eye and a unicorn eye and I like all those things." Daisy's mum, Alysia Passfield, 30, said it was 'tough' trying to get a diagnosis for Daisy's condition. "Everyone I have spoken to has said how lovely it is. "I think they will love it just like I do. "I am so excited to show everyone at school my sparkly eye. Daisy, from Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, said: "I feel happy because everyone can see my pink sparkly eye. Now she's proud to show off her "superhero" eye which pals say looks befitting of a unicorn or a dragon - much to Daisy's delight. Instead of sticking with a matching blue lens, the confident schoolgirl surprised her family and medics by asking to have a new eye in her favourite colour - pink glitter.
And after years of having a blue prosthetic eye, she chose to have a pink sparkly prosthetic eye fitted this summer as she is a fan of glittery things. The tot had her right eye removed in a four-hour operation when she was age two after a newer procedure which is meant to shrink the tumour, broke the tumour into different parts and the family didn't want it to spread. She had chemotherapy to shrink the tumour but unfortunately, after two months of the chemo ending, Daisy relapsed. Daisy Passfield, eight, was diagnosed with a grade D tumour in her retina when she was 14 months old. An eight-year-old who had to have her eye removed due to cancer has replaced it with a pink sparkly prosthetic.
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