Toddler left blind in one eye 'in 24/7 pain' after horror accident at nursery
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A toddler has been left blind in one eye and is "in 24/7 pain" after he fell over during a horror accident at nursery. Levi Lithgow, 3, had a seemingly minor bump when he was aged one. But just weeks later his eye became increasingly light sensitive - as the bump had dislodged his lens in his right eye. A year on, the lens was removed but it couldn't be replaced as Levi's eye kept filling with fluid, causing him more and more pain.
The tot still spends most days in agony and is blind in one eye but faces a three-year waiting list to have his eye removed. Mum Gemma Lithgow, 22, from Ayr, Scotland, said: "It's got to the point that he wakes in the middle of the night screeching and clawing at his eye. The pain is so bad that there's no consoling him.
"Having his eye removed would stop all of his pain and the hospital trips. He would be able to live a normal little boy's life. I couldn't imagine him living three years with the amount of pain he is in." Gemma and her husband Robert, 24 - who both work as school transporters - said their son was perfectly normal and healthy.
But a little bump to the head aged one, in May 2022, while learning to walk, changed everything. Two weeks after the small fall, his right eye became increasingly light-sensitive and he would become terrified whenever doctors or ophthalmologists tried to examine him.
Gemma said: "When he was in the light, it would hurt. We assumed it was just a scratch at first. It got to the point he couldn't travel in the car without us blocking the window with a towel first." Tests showed the knock on the head had led to his lens becoming dislocated, and the lens was removed surgically in December 2023. He was left completely blind in that eye but medics hoped to replace the lens and fix the issues.
