He lost sight in one eye when he was 2 and spent much of his childhood in painful medical procedures and grueling chemotherapy.

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"I lost the sight in one eye and the other faded within six months, " he said.

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Hernandez, who lost one eye and suffered major sight loss in the other, underwent cranial reconstruction surgery.

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Goody has spoken about her own childhood, spent in a run-down part of Bermondsey, south-east London, being interrupted by having to help out her mother, who lost the use of her left arm and the sight in one eye after a motorcycle accident.

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