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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Health
Danny Rigg

Mum broke down after being told reason for son's rash

A mum said her "outgoing little" boy's confession "broke" her heart.

Dylan Reid was ready to start his first day of school in Liverpool after moving from Newcastle to Dovecot. But thinking a dark, purple rash covering his chest, arms and legs was potentially deadly meningitis, Kelly Ann Moore rushed her 12-year-old son to Alder Hey Children's Hospital.

She "was scared, very scared" by the prospect of meningitis, but, she said, "what was worse was when we found out it was leukemia". Kelly Ann "broke down crying" when Dylan was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), an aggressive and fast growing cancer diagnosed in roughly 790 people in the UK each year, according to the NHS.

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