Woman's Day Magazine NZ

‘Seeing double has never stopped me’

Waking up after life-saving surgery to remove a huge, malignant tumour from her brain stem, Loren Patafta found she could suddenly see two of everything.

She assumed her dizzying double vision was the result of the lingering anaesthetic and would soon wear off. But no such luck – over the past three decades, the Melbourne

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