Re: The RFC and 'Tyler' / Tyler Fishlock [Merged]
Saw this yesterday. Loved the line near the bottom of the story. Doesn't seem to let anything get him down.
. A lot of people could learn from this young champ.
There was a nice pic accompanying the story but unfortunately, I don't know how to post it. If anyone else could, would be appreciated.
The story was found at: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20365982-2862,00.html
Young Tyler flashes his new baby blues
September 07, 2006 12:00am
CHEEKY Tyler Fishlock asked for a mirror and declared himself gorgeous when he got his new blue eyes yesterday.
It was a milestone for the brave four-year-old who was robbed of his eyes by the rare cancer retinoblastoma.
He wanted just one thing -- for his artificial eyes to be blue like the sky and his favourite Thomas the Tank Engine.
Ocularist Patrick Loyer, one of three artificial eye makers in Victoria and 12 in Australia, crafted Tyler's new eyes.
And he was thanked with a declaration of love from his little patient.
Mum Georgette said her son looked "beautiful but a bit weird" with his new eyes. "They are really unusual and they are just gorgeous and they suit him," Ms Fishlock said.
Before the cancer took his eyes, they were a brown/hazel with green and grey specks.
"Now they're sparkling blue I've told him I'll have to call him Frank Sinatra now -- Ol' Blue Eyes," she joked.
Ms Fishlock said she preferred Tyler with his natural coloured eyes, but conceded he did look beautiful with blue.
"It was very hard to let go again of the colour because it was hard enough to let go of the fact he lost his eyes," she said.
"Being blue has changed him but at the end of the day I'm happy for him if that makes him happy because he has gone through more than all of us."
Ms Fishlock is unsure where Tyler's determination for blue comes from.
"It was only recently we started talking about other people with blue eyes in the family but . . . he's always said his favourite colour is blue, maybe blue makes him happy," she said.
Tyler will need new artificial eyes as he grows, but Ms Fishlock expects they will stay blue.
But Tyler has other ideas.
He joked that his next set of eyes might be yellow and black, a reference to his beloved Richmond Tigers.
But his mum was not so keen. "I draw the line at that," she said.
