A woman had never thought that she would discover something very serious during her visit to Scotland.
In May, Bal Gill visited the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions museum in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Gill was checking out souvenir images from a thermal camera at the attraction and suddenly she noticed a heat patch over her breast.
”While making our way through the floors we got to the thermal imaging camera room,” she said. ”As all families do, we entered and started to wave our arms and look at the images created.”
”I noticed a heat patch (red in color) coming from my left breast. We thought it was odd and having looked at everyone else they didn’t have the same. I took a picture and we carried on and enjoyed the rest of the museum.”
The 41-year-old did some search on the Internet to know about the patch and Gill learned that it could be breast cancer. She took the images to her Doctor and there she was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.
”At this point, I searched on Google to see what this could mean and I saw a lot of articles about breast cancer and thermal imaging cameras,” she said. ”I made an appointment with the doctor and as it turns out I do have breast cancer, thankfully really early stages.”
After the discovery of her breast cancer, Gill has had two surgeries to prevent cancer from spreading and was getting ready for a third.
“I just wanted to say thank you: Without that camera, I would never have known. I know it’s not the intention of the camera but for me, it really was a life-changing visit,” Gill told the Camera Obscura museum.
Thermal Camera had the “potential to detect life-changing symptoms in this way,” said the museum’s general manager, Andrew Johnson on the World of Illusions website.
”It’s amazing that Bal noticed the difference in the image and crucially acted on it promptly,” he said. ”We wish her all the best with her recovery and hope to meet her and her family in the future.”
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