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Nicole Goodwin

Gateshead mum's life 'turned upside down' after three-week-old son diagnosed with sepsis

Every day Lucy Shields wakes up fearing that it could be her baby boy's last.

At just three weeks old, her son Roman was diagnosed with sepsis, a life-threatening infection that has left him with life-changing conditions.

Despite defying the odds of survival Roman, now aged two, has an extensive list of medial conditions as a result of the infection.

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