Sitting in a hospital room, Callum Shallcross says he ‘dissociated from reality’.
He’d just been told that the small lump on his neck that he’d asked his mates about five weeks earlier was stage four cancer. It was a hammer-blow to the then-13-year-old and his mum.
“I was given the news twice. When I was told by an A&E consultant I zoned out and dissociated from reality,” Callum recalled. “I went into my own mind and was staring blankly.
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