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Boy diagnosed with brain tumor after getting ‘fuzzy eyes’ at school
The diagnosis came after an optician found swelling behind his eyes, and doctors later said the cancer had spread to his brain and spine.
- On September 29, five-year-old Teddy Hemms visited a Specsavers optician in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, for "fuzzy eyes," only to be diagnosed with grade four medulloblastoma, a highly aggressive brain cancer.
- Surgery at Addenbrooke revealed the cancer had spread to his spine, prompting six weeks of radiation at University College London Hospital before intensive chemotherapy began.
- Mother Cindy Hemms resigned from her job while stepdad Liam reduced his hours to provide full-time care, exhausting the family's £8,000 in savings for food, transport, and accommodation.
- Teddy continues aggressive chemotherapy until August; scans show reduced spinal metastases, though two tumors remain in his brain, which Cindy described as "brutal."
- Doctors initially warned Teddy had six to 12 weeks to live without treatment; the family now faces palliative care prospects while remaining focused on "taking things one day at a time.
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