A Monaghan care worker who has had to have one of her eyes removed after she experienced slight blurred vision, advises everyone to get a routine eye test. Jacqueline McGeough loves her work with elderly people in the Monaghan community as a supervisor with Connected Health. She is also a wife, mother and grandmother.
Her active life could've been cut short, however, if her daughter had not booked an appointment with her optician after her mother complained about blurred vision briefly. The optician soon discovered Jacqueline had a detached retina. And, further tests at hospital revealed a large cancerous tumour 8mm in depth had caused Jacqueline's retina to come away.
Today, the Monaghan community carer tells her story so that others will learn the importance of regular eye tests: "As I was going into surgery the doctor said 'I can't guarantee your life, Jacqueline' and i Said; 'No, but God will. He's taking my eye but He'll guarantee my life'," Jacqueline told Northern Sound, "My whole life flashed in front of me and the type of cancer I have is a very rare form of cancer; only two per cent of people get their eye taken out because, if you can detect it on time you can catch it on time."
