A five-year-old boy was rushed to Alder Hey for a five-hour operation on his ear after suffering from an ear infection.
Sam Hawksworth, from Southport, was struggling with an infection when his mum, Emma, noticed his ear had started to swell in February 2018.
He was taken to Ormskirk Hospital where a CT scan showed the infection had spread through the bone and was affecting the underlying blood vessels that drain blood from his brain.
