A toddler who spent his first birthday in hospital is urgently waiting for a life-saving operation.
Louis Jones was born on February 10, 2022 at 32-weeks and was a "healthy baby", spending three weeks at the neonatal unit before being allowed home. But mum Jade Jones knew something wasn't right with her son when his skin was mottled, he was "sucking in" under his ribs and he was vomiting.
After taking him to Wigan hospital in March at just eight weeks old, she was told it was a viral infection and things were "fine". But four days later he was taken back to hospital due to seizures and was rushed to Alder Hey on a ventilator. His worried family were soon told he had enterovirus, late onset strep b, meningitis and sepsis.
