'Lights were flickering, diagnosis was stab in heart and I'm facing death'

Lara Vivo started to have headaches as well10:12, 23 Aug 2026A woman was diagnosed with a rare eye cancer after complaining to confused colleagues that the office lights were 'flickering'.‌Lara Vivo, 41, started to notice 'flickering lights' in work meetings, which gave her headaches around March 2019, despite colleagues saying the lights were working fine. She put it down to stress, but ended up going for an eye test as she thought she needed glasses.‌Instead, Lara was referred straight to an emergency eye unit in a hospital, where further tests led to a doctor diagnosing her with eye cancer - uveal melanoma. She flew from her home in Bournemouth to see a highly-recommended private specialist eye doctor in Barcelona, who found a 1cm tumour on her right eye and it had caused her retina to