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BRAVE Cliohna Thomson has flown a plane for the first time – less than six months after losing her sight to cancer.
Now the daredevil teenager is planning a sponsored skydive to raise money for the charity that helped her through her ordeal.
Doctors initially thought the 16-year-old, from Aberlour, Morayshire, was going blind after suffering from Type 1 diabetes from the age of five.
But just days after injections in her eyes to treat diabetic blindness, she was told that she had leukaemia – and it was the cancer that was robbing her of her sight.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/479664/Blinded-teenage-girl-now-reaching-for-the-skies
What a terrible blow, but what a brave girl 🙂
Now the daredevil teenager is planning a sponsored skydive to raise money for the charity that helped her through her ordeal.
Doctors initially thought the 16-year-old, from Aberlour, Morayshire, was going blind after suffering from Type 1 diabetes from the age of five.
But just days after injections in her eyes to treat diabetic blindness, she was told that she had leukaemia – and it was the cancer that was robbing her of her sight.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/479664/Blinded-teenage-girl-now-reaching-for-the-skies
What a terrible blow, but what a brave girl 🙂