A trainee optometrist helped save the sight of a patient after she was identified with an extremely rare eye condition. Sharon Spencer, 61, had been suffering from constant headaches for weeks but it wasn’t until her right cheek and eye started to swell that she sought help and went to Specsavers in Newark. Aleena Ali, 22, a trainee optometrist from Newark, carried out several tests suspecting something was wrong with Sharon’s eye. She called her senior colleagues to check her findings, before referring Sharon urgently to the hospital. At the hospital, Sharon was diagnosed with a rare conditio…
