Birmingham, Oct 3: Nine-week-old Romero, born to Curtis and Leonie Norville, has 'ghastly white reflection' in his left eye. Doctors have diagnosed it to be six eye tumours, reports Daily Mail.
Alarm bells immediately started ringing for Mr Norville, a professional photographer and cameraman who had never seen anything like it before.
After a trip to the GP, Romero was swiftly referred to a local children's hospital where a consultant delivered the devastating news that a rare eye cancer had caused a large tumour behind the eye – and five smaller ones behind his right eye.
Four months on, Romero is responding to chemotherapy and laser treatment.
But his parents have decided to speak out about his case to warn other parents about the condition.
‘When we were told he had tumours it was heartbreaking and Leonie was hysterical.
'She was crying her eyes out,' said Norville, a cameraman who is in his 30s and from Perry Barr in Birmingham.
‘We'd never heard of this condition before. No one in our family had had it. Our world fell apart.
‘But he is responding well to treatment. Romero has been very good and the only problem is he wakes up a lot at night because chemotherapy makes babies feed little and often.'
Mrs Norville, an adult social services manager, added: ‘At first when we heard the news I would cry every day – away from Romero so he wouldn't pick up on our unhappiness. Now we take it one day at a time.'
