A family have spoken of their shock after their nine-year-old son suddenly collapsed at school. All seemed like a normal morning last week when parents Cris and Melissa received a devastating phone call to say their son Alex Darracott had collapsed suddenly.
Alex was rushed to hospital in a 'really bad way' where he began treatment for a viral infection. But, tests would soon show that he had actually suffered a bleed on the brain and he was therefore rushed to Alder Hey Children's hospital.
Mum Melissa Penketh called dad Cris, who rushed to Alder Hey where Alex underwent a seven hour operation. Family friend David Keelan said doctors were "preparing them for the worst", Liverpool ECHO reports.
