Tia-Leigh has suffered bruises trying to keep her eyes open.
Somehow waking up on a few mornings has been an arduous task for some people such that keeping their eyes wide open becomes rather difficult.
But for this young woman, it is not a challenge; it is a battlefield every day.
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Her eyelids are taped or glued open because of an abnormal condition just so she can see.
Tia-Leigh Streamer woke up with one drooping eyelid back in May 2023.
She thought it was just hay fever then.
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And then, she suddenly woke up in December of that year with neither of her eyes being able to open.
In extreme cases like her, the person becomes cozily shut within an environment where eyes can’t be opened by the individual at all.
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“I know it’s neurological but the doctors don’t know what causes it which makes it worse for me, because if they could say it’s caused from this, I think it would make me feel slightly less in the dark,” she said.
“To be told I’ve got this for the rest of my life and not know why is a hard thing to deal with.”
“The more often I have it, at some point my body will get used to the Botox and it won’t work anymore,” she added.
“I have them done every eight to 10 weeks at the moment. It was 12 weeks. But I only get about three to five weeks where it actually takes any effect.”
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“I’ve actually had bruises on my eyelids from the tape before.”
“It was awful to be honest, I had everything planned out. I was training to do that and I was saving to move out and get married and have children and it was all taken away from me,” she said.
“It’s like I’m going back to being a child again because I can’t use a knife and fork and see what I’m doing,” she added.
