By the time Annabelle Geisler was just four years old, she had already had 30 eye surgeries.
Now seven, the young Christchurch girl is the rare one in 10,000 children in New Zealand born with glaucoma.
Typically, the eye condition, where the optic nerve connecting the eye to the brain is damaged, affects those over 60, but straight after birth, doctors noticed a difference in Annabelle.
“She was born with swollen eyes and they looked cloudy,” remembers her