A family's world came crashing down as they discovered their youngest child has leukaemia. Little Wyatt Forster, aged two, now faces six months of chemotherapy.
He was diagnosed last week with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) - just days after his GP gave him antibiotics for an ear infection. Wyatt was first taken to hospital in Stoke before being transferred to Birmingham Children's Hospital after the devastating diagnosis.
Mum Rhiannon, a hotel night manager who lives in Chesterton near Newcastle-under-Lyme with her 43-year-old husband Sam, is now having to take six months off work so she can support her boy through the intensive treatment. Mum-of-five Rhiannon told StokeonTrentLive: “He was very down and he didn't want to play, which is very unusual.