Anyone who’s had children has likely seen them suffer from eye infections now and then.
But when Michelle Saaiman took a closer look at her son’s eye, she made a horrifying discovery.
Thought it was a April Fool’s joke
A heart-wrenching story has emerged about a little boy who’s facing the terrifying reality of losing his eye after contracting herpes in his cornea from a kiss.
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare — watching their child suffer from something they never expected.
Michelle Saaiman, from Namibia, noticed something unusual in her 16-month-old son, Juwan’s eye last August, initially thinking it was just an eye infection. But when antibiotic drops didn’t work and the infection worsened, a specialist confirmed the unimaginable: Juwan had contracted herpes simplex virus (HSV), likely from someone with an active cold sore kissing him around his eye.
