This is the moment a baby whose vision was blighted by severe cataracts was left beaming with joy after seeing properly for the first time.
Six month old Leonard Walls was delighted when his sight was saved by doctors at Alder Hey Children's Hospital. However, his mum initially thought the problem was very different.
Rachael Fleming, 38, from Ellesmere Port, thought Leonard was suffering from reflux when she took him to Macclesfield A&E in July last year - but doctors suspected the problem was far more serious, the Liverpool Echo reports. READ MORE: 'We cannot bring twins home to a hotel': Dad facing homelessness makes plea to council after being offered B&B miles away "We didn't have any idea something was wrong until Macclesfield told us it wasn't reflux, it was infantile spasms," said Rachael. "He would round his shoulders and pull his knees up and he would scream.
It looks like reflux, but it was coming in clusters. So doctors said he needed to go to Alder Hey to have a brain scan." She took her son to Alder Hey, where doctors noticed white specks in Leonard's eyes - and delivered the bombshell news.
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