William Mark Brown

William Mark Brown was born on Monday 8th March 2010 at 7.30 am weighing in at 9lbs 4oz at Lower Hutt Hospital. Jason and I were so thrilled that he was a happy healthy big baby boy and the first boy in our family. We have two girls Lexie (4) and Sophie(2) and they love their baby brother to bits. Everything was going so well. At William's 6 week check with the Plunkett Nurse I mentioned to the Nurse that he had a smaller eye and she advised that we needed to get to a Dr that day. We went to the Drs and they checked his eye and said he needed to be referred to the Eye Department at Wellington Hospital. The appointment was booked for the following Wednesday at 8.30 am! That's when it struck us that there could actually be something seriously wrong with William's right eye. Thoughts of Retinoblastoma went through our heads and the next 5 days were hell waiting to find out what was wrong.