When she was in her first year of primary school, teachers thought Jenna Jones was a naughty, fidgety child. “I was always in trouble and constantly told to sit down,” Jenna recalls. “But I wasn’t naughty. I just had to move closer to the front so I could see what my teacher was doing.”
When the school called her mum Therese and dad Brad, that was their first inkling something wasn’t right with Jenna, who’s now 17 and the second youngest of their six kids. “We thought she just needed glasses but when an ophthalmologist told us to go straight to Westmead Children’s Hospital it began to sink in Jenna had a more serious issue.”
SHOCK DIAGNOSIS
At first, doctors feared a tumour on Jenna’s optic nerve was damaging her…
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