A mum has spoken of her shock after taking her three-year-old son to the GP with sore legs only to find that he had leukaemia.
Kerry Nichols took her son Mason Tozer to her GP after he was having trouble walking, with the doctor discovering a pinprick rash on his legs. After blood tests taken in the nearest town of Carlisle showed that he had a low count of both platelets and haemoglobin and his white blood cells were showing signs of leukaemia, he was taken to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, where mother and son have been since the evening of Wednesday November 30.
Kerry and partner Simon Tozer are now looking at twice-weekly 90-minute journeys from their home in Blennerhasset, Cumbria to Newcastle for the next six months as Mason embarks on an intensive treatment programme. As well as having chemotherapy once a week, Mason will need another injection once a week and a lumbar puncture and bone marrow aspiration every fortnight, as well as taking steroids daily.
