{"id":3813,"date":"2024-07-13T22:47:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T22:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/brain-tumour-found-after-cardiff-boy-4-visits-opticians\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T22:47:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T22:47:46","slug":"brain-tumour-found-after-cardiff-boy-4-visits-opticians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/brain-tumour-found-after-cardiff-boy-4-visits-opticians\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain tumour found after Cardiff boy, 4, visits opticians"},"content":{"rendered":"


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By\u00a0Maria Cassidy,\u00a0<\/span>BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rome was admitted into hospital after a brain tumour was found in an MRI scan<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A four-year-old boy was taken to the opticians when his eye started to flicker – only for his parents to be told he had developed a brain tumour.<\/p>\n

Rome Hill’s family said they had no idea he was blind in his problem right eye because he didn’t show any signs of having problems with his sight. <\/p>\n

The little boy a six-hour-long operation on 20 June where he had part of the tumour removed.<\/p>\n

“We couldn’t believe it. You always hear about it on the news or on TV – but you never think it would be your family,” said Rome’s dad, Perry Hill, 33, from Cardiff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said he took his son to the opticians after he and his partner Katie Hayes, 30, noticed Rome’s eye started to flicker involuntarily in April.<\/p>\n

“I was looking at his eye while he was watching TV and I noticed it flicker up and down,” Mr Hill said.<\/p>\n

“I mentioned it to Katie and we first thought it was an involuntary thing. But we decided to get it checked out.”<\/p>\n

The couple took Rome to the optician’s where they were told that he had “quite low vision”. <\/p>\n

It was only when a consultant spoke to the family that they found out that Rome was blind in his right eye.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rome stayed at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital in Cardiff while he recovered from brain surgery<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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“We couldn’t believe it. Rome has never shown any indication that he had issues with his eyesight,” Mr Hill said.<\/p>\n

“He has no issues with balance or coordination. I play rugby and when I’m on the pitch waving at him, he can see me and waves back.”<\/p>\n

Rome was sent for a MRI scan and a few weeks later, the family were called into an appointment with the consultant. <\/p>\n

“We were taken into this room with comfy chairs and we then wondered ‘what are they going to tell us?’ We were really anxious,” his dad said.<\/p>\n

The consultant told the couple that Rome had a brain tumour sitting on a fluid pocket close to a gland at the base of his brain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The family say they are now planning to raise money for the hospital that looked after Rome (second from right)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Rome’s six-hour-long surgery saw part of the tumour removed due to where it was positioned. <\/p>\n

“On the day of the operation, I paced the whole house. It was agonising. When he came out of theatre and we were told the operation was a success, it was such as relief,” Mr Hill said.<\/p>\n

“The main thing that we wanted was to get our boy back home. He has been so brave throughout everything he has gone through,” he added. <\/p>\n

The family were told that the tumour was called a low-grade glioma and was non-cancerous. Rome will now undergo chemotherapy to shrink the remaining part of the tumour. <\/p>\n

He will also have tests to determine whether the shrinking of the tumour will mean that the vision in his right eye improves over time.<\/p>\n

Mr Hill said: “We were over the moon to find out it was benign. It has all gone in so quick and everything is still so raw. <\/p>\n

“But we wanted to raise awareness of our story and the great work that the team in Noah’s Ark do.”<\/p>\n

Mr Hill has now set up a fundraising page and challenged himself to run 10k to raise money for Noah’s Ark.<\/p>\n

“It’s a 10k for 10k. We want to raise as much money as we can for the team as a thank you taking care of our boy,” <\/p>\n

“We also want to show our appreciation to the doctors, nurses and all healthcare professionals on the ward,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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