At first, parents Ollie Banks and Leila Gaudry, from Eastbourne, England, noticed a strange light in their 4-year-old son Noah’s left eye. Little did they realize this was an extreme symptom of something far more devastating to come.
“It was just a flicker in his eye that, in certain lights, if he was looking a certain way and there was light reflecting, I would see this white glow,” dad Ollie told the BBC.