{"id":5471,"date":"2025-10-02T12:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/nieuws\/its-so-amazing-what-they-can-do-these-days\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:03:39","slug":"its-so-amazing-what-they-can-do-these-days","status":"publish","type":"news_pt","link":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/nieuws\/its-so-amazing-what-they-can-do-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s so amazing what they can do these days.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><\/a>Eline wasn&#8217;t even two years old when it turned out she had tumors in both eyes. It was the start of a difficult period. Her mother, Erica, looks back. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing what they can do these days.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She kept rubbing both eyes with her little fists and screaming very loudly. That\u2019s how it all started seven years ago, says Eline\u2019s mother, Erica. \u201cShe also had a fever and was vomiting a lot. And because she couldn\u2019t keep even a teaspoon of ORS down, she was admitted to the hospital.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately, Eline started drinking again at the hospital, so she was allowed to go home just one day later. The doctors suspected it was a virus. Her left eye was noticeably swollen, but that was probably due to the virus as well.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two days later\u2014by then it was Friday evening\u2014it became apparent that Eline\u2019s left eye looked strange: \u201cIt looked just like a cat\u2019s eye; the pupil was wide open,\u201d Erica says. \u201cAnd the white of the eye was yellowish. I thought, \u2018Something\u2019s not right here.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She called the family doctor\u2019s office and was told to come in right away. \u201cThe doctor on duty was also concerned and called an ophthalmologist. The ophthalmologist told us we needed to go to the hospital the next day.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there were Erica and her husband at the Amsterdam UMC on Saturday morning. And from that moment on, everything happened very quickly: an ultrasound, an MRI scan, a diagnosis. Eline didn\u2019t have a virus or an infection. She had eye cancer. She was one year and four months old at the time.    <\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/oogfonds.nl\/verhaal\/haar-linkeroogje-was-niet-meer-te-redden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the rest of the testimonial<\/a> on the Oogfonds website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can now read the story of our member Eline on the Oogfonds website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5147,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_daextauttol_enable_tooltips":""},"class_list":["post-5471","news_pt","type-news_pt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_pt\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_pt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ver-ooginoog.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}