“baking brought light back into my life”

After a very difficult few years, baking brought much-needed light back into Karenza Mason’s life. Her problems began in the early part of 2020.

‘Everything in my life had been turned upside down after largely losing my sight. I’d gone from being a married businesswoman with a thriving hairdressing career, hours filled with my children and grandchildren, to suddenly losing my sight, job, marriage and independence. During lockdown, I felt lonely and couldn’t find the nerve to leave the house.

Karenza, now 50, developed idiopathic intracranial hypertension in 2013 – pressure in the brain – causing permanent damage to her