Melanie Wilford listened helplessly as her son Dillon let out an agonising scream. It was a chilling noise she was used to. There was rarely a time Dillon wasn’t writhing in pain, begging for his leg to be amputated.
The 11-year-old's life turned upside down when he woke with a sore leg and a limp in November 2021. The next day, he was unable to walk. Every time he put his foot down he was left in unbearable agony.
His mysterious condition baffled doctors for months until he was finally diagnosed in February this year. Dillon, from Bolton, went from being a healthy little boy to suddenly having Complex Regional Pain Syndrome – a condition so excruciating it carries the nickname ‘the suicide disease’.
