[quote] [b]Girl, 2, saved by Facebook after family friend spots eye cancer in photo taken by mother[/b]
A toddler's life has been saved after a nurse spotted she had cancer by looking at a photo on Facebook.
Nicola Sharp was browsing through friend Michele Freeman's profile when she saw a photograph of Michele's two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Grace.
The flash photograph showed Grace with a white pupil in her left eye instead of the 'red eye' tint most people would have - a sign of eye cancer.
Nicola, 42, who has worked in paediatrics for more than 20 years, immediately contacted Michele and Grace was later diagnosed with retinoblastoma. She was found to have two tumours and lost all sight in her left eye.
Medics told Michele if the cancer had spread it could have been fatal.
Grace now has to travel to Birmingham every four weeks for specialist laser treatment and will have to monitor the condition for the rest of her life.
Michele, 37, said: 'There is no doubt in my mind that Nicola saved Grace's life. There were no signs that Grace had any problems with her eyes and we never would have known without her.
'There is very little awareness of this condition and only around 50 people in the UK are diagnosed with it each year.
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The Facebook picture that alerted nurse Nicola Sharp to a potentially serious eye condition for young Grace Freeman
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Grace, pictured with her mother Michele, was found to have two tumours and lost all sight in her left eye, but the cancer had not spread
'Without Nicola, we don't think we would have discovered there was anything wrong with Grace until she had a routine eye test at school, when things could have been much worse.'
Nicola, who lives in Middleton, is the team leader for school nursing services for NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale.
She said: 'I was just looking at the photos when I noticed something odd.
'Normally, you get a red eye tint in photos, but where the eye comes out white it can mean something is wrong. We were praying it was nothing serious, but unfortunately it was.'
Retinoblastoma only affects young children and the most common symptom is that the pupil tends to reflect light as white, like a cat's eye. When diagnosed early, it is very treatable and can be cured.
Michele, of Mount Street, Heywood, added: 'I really want to give a massive thank you to Nicola and to all my family and friends who have been so supportive over the past four weeks. It has been horrible and without them I couldn't have coped.'
Michele, who works for Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, and Nicola know each other through visits to Birch Farm on Doctor Fold Lane, where Michele and Nicola's daughter Francesca have horse stables.[/quote]
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She was very lucky to have a friend who could notice that in a picture.
She wasn't saved by Facebook, she was saved by a picture.
Makes me wonder why Facebook would need this sort of publicity.
Fuck, Facebook is crap.
[QUOTE=sphinxa279;25398111]Fuck, Facebook is crap.[/QUOTE]
Facebook isn't that bad, it's good for keeping in touch with people
Facebook has bad UI. and it isnt facebook who saved her, it was nurse that spotted it. silly people.
I thought it was common knowledge that you can spot eye issues in photographs? The same thing happened a good 6 years ago or so.
[QUOTE=Amic;25398124]Facebook has bad UI. and it isnt facebook who saved her, it was nurse that spotted it. silly people.[/QUOTE]
But if it wasn't for Facebook or any other social networking sites this photo probably wouldn't never have been seen and that girl could have died.
So it was a concidence that it was facebook. She could mail it over gmail to het. The Gmail would have save her life? Its not facebook who spotted it, it was a HUMAN.
[QUOTE=James1o1o;25398252]But if it wasn't for Facebook or any other social networking sites this photo probably wouldn't never have been seen and that girl could have died.[/QUOTE]
If it wasn't for Facebook the girl wouldn't have developed eye cancer in the first place.
[QUOTE=sphinxa279;25398111]Fuck, Facebook is crap.[/QUOTE]
You have no friends, that's why.
[QUOTE=H0rsey;25398335]You have no friends, that's why.[/QUOTE]
I have friends, i know that facebook is crap too. It has bad userinterface. People i know agree with me. Also, troll alert!.
Hasn't something very similar to this happened before?
Freeman :smile:
[QUOTE=Amic;25398258]So it was a concidence that it was facebook. She could mail it over gmail to het. The Gmail would have save her life? Its not facebook who spotted it, it was a HUMAN.[/QUOTE]
You are very dense.
[QUOTE=Amic;25398258]So it was a concidence that it was facebook. She could mail it over gmail to het. The Gmail would have save her life? Its not facebook who spotted it, it was a HUMAN.[/QUOTE]
You wouldn't send random photos over email though, on Facebook, Myspace etc people will just upload all photos they have, they don't expect people to look at them but some people do.
Lets there was a surgeon. Was it someone who performed it or knife they have cut with saved life?
[QUOTE=Amic;25398413]Lets there was a surgeon. Was it someone who performed it or knife they have cut with saved life?[/QUOTE]
What the fuck does this mean
anyone thought that the story it was going to be is a girl that was going to commit suicide but saved by good comments?
don't blame by the title, it was edited after this post
[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy18;25398426]What the fuck does this mean[/QUOTE]
"Lets say there is a surgeon. Was it them, who preformed the surgery, or the scalpel, they cut with, that saved the life of the patient?"
You guys are all being a little pedantic. The reason FB was mentioned was because it's open for friends to view pictures which would be unlike other methods that require the mother to send the pictures to her friend (with intent of analysing them). The mum knew nothing was wrong before facebook, the nurse didn't either, it's because facebook allowed those pictures to be readily available that the girl's life was saved.
Seriously, did I ACTUALLY have to explain that to you guys or are you just trying to find something to post about?
[QUOTE=H0rsey;25398335]You have no friends, that's why.[/QUOTE]
Erm, I have plenty of friends thanks, stop being butthurt over Facebook being shit.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;25398098]She wasn't saved by Facebook, she was saved by a picture.
Makes me wonder why Facebook would need this sort of publicity.[/QUOTE]
Without facebook the nurse wouldn't have seen the photo.
[QUOTE=Domamin;25398452]"Lets say there is a surgeon. Was it them, who preformed the surgery, or the scalpel, they cut with, that saved the life of the patient?"[/QUOTE]
The surgeon did it with the help of the knife. Kind of like how this girl was saved by a nurse with the help of facebook.
Facebook caused her cancer too
I cried over how lucky she was, and also because I was imagining myself losing all the sight. :smith:
[QUOTE=sami-pso;25398477]Without facebook the nurse wouldn't have seen the photo.[/QUOTE]
Whatever... Doesnt cahnged that its UI fails ass
[QUOTE=Amic;25398491]Whatever... Doesnt cahnged that its UI fails ass[/QUOTE]
What's wrong with UI? I like it
So it is just me liking user-friendly sites? Well, i cant find a shit in it. Thats whats wrong.
[QUOTE=Amic;25398530]So it is just me liking user-friendly sites? Well, i cant find a shit in it. Thats whats wrong.[/QUOTE]
It's the easiest thing to use ever. How do you think 12 year old girls use it?
ugh facebook is still stupid though
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