An East Lothian mum's quick thinking may have been what saved her son's life after he suddenly fell ill on a pumpkin picking trip.
Josh Pollard, 9, was rushed into emergency brain surgery at the Edinburgh Sick Kids in October 2021, after suffering a clot which paralysed one side of his body. Showing no prior symptoms that anything was wrong, Josh and his mum Jayne had headed for a family day out when he began to complain of 'feeling sick.'
Starting to become unresponsive, Jayne had quickly dialled 999 and Josh was rushed into an ambulance, where he suffered four seizures alone on the way to hospital.
