An A&E nurse at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) has undergone free laser eye surgery after continually struggling to perform CPR while wearing her glasses.
Rose Taylor, 28, often had to stop the life-saving procedure when her glasses fell off her nose. Wearing contact lenses simply weren't practical during long 12-hour night shifts either, leaving her at a loose end.
Rose, who lives in Leeds city centre, said: "My glasses would slide down my nose and get in the way of chest compressions.
"My colleagues would have to intervene and make sure they didn’t fall onto the patient."
However, Rose signed up to the Optical Express Thanks a Million campaign, which rewards NHS and emergency service workers with free laser eye surgery.
The campaign began in 2017 and set out to gift £1 million worth of laser eye surgery - with Rose being one of the lucky few to undergo free surgery and be given the gift of 20/20 vision.
"I thought the call was a hoax at first!" she said. "Thank god it wasn’t.
"Just days after my surgery my sight was better than when I was wearing contact lenses or glasses.
"All the small things you take for granted are made so much easier with perfect vision."
