For Zo\u00eb (now 7), the tumor was confined to her eye, but Dex developed a metastasis and passed away. \u201cEvery night, I relive the moment Dex died in our arms.\u201d <\/p>\n
Marscha: \u201cWhen I was ten months old, my right eye was removed. It turned out there was a tumor in my eye. I didn\u2019t have to undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy because the tumor was removed along with my eyeball. Since then, I\u2019ve had a prosthesis in my eye\u2014commonly known as a glass eye. I\u2019ve never known anything other than seeing with just one eye. When I was fourteen, I started dating Haiko, who was sixteen at the time. We knew early on that we wanted to have children someday. But I might have been a carrier of a genetic condition. So, when I was eighteen, I underwent genetic testing, which showed that I wasn\u2019t a carrier. That was the best possible outcome. We were happy. There was an almost negligible 0.5 percent chance that my children would inherit the predisposition to retinoblastoma\u2014an eye tumor. <\/p>\n