A mum who thought her son did not want to start secondary school found out he was in fact suffering from cancer. Emma Barnsley, 41, from Long Eaton, first thought her son Hayden Barnsley, 11, was reluctant to head to The Long Eaton secondary school for his first day on Monday, September 5.
But after Hayden told his mother he felt ill, she looked looked at his chest and believed he had pneumonia. After being taken to the doctors, Hayden was examined in A&E, where they devastatingly diagnosed him with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
To make matters worse, Hayden's condition worsened to the point where on the evening of Wednesday, September 7, the schoolboy fell into a coma which he woke from on Saturday, September 10. Ms Barnsley, said: "I thought he just did not want to go to school, and was acting up so he didn't have to go. But then after noticing he was poorly I checked his chest and I thought he had pneumonia and I was worried.
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