article_snippet.sent: Lucy Garrod, now 27, developed an ulcer known as a corneal abrasion, caused by a bacterial infection which grew under Lucy Garrod right lens.
article_snippet.sent: Lucy Garrod, 27, was left partially blind in her eye after bacteria began growing underneath Lucy Garrod contact lens, causing an ulcer known as a corneal abrasion .
article_snippet.sent: so Lucy Garrod went to hospital, where tests revealed the corneal abrasion.
article_snippet.sent: Doctors said the ulcer was growing on the surface of her eye, millimetres away from permanently blinding Lucy Garrod.
article_snippet.sent: Lucy Garrod spent a week in hospital, where medics broke the news that Lucy Garrod was still partially blind.
article_snippet.sent: Next, doctors broke the news that her had lost sight in her right eye, due to the ulcer's position.
article_snippet.sent: her said: 'The good news was if the ulcer had been millimetres over I would have lost my sight completely. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Lucy Garrod woke up and felt Lucy Garrod eye was very sore and swollen .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Lucy Garrod had a corneal abrasion - an ulcer on the eye - caused by bacteria .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Ulcer was millimeters away from blinding Lucy Garrod and left Lucy Garrod partially blind .
  