Parents screamed when they were told their young son may not survive after he collapsed suddenly.
Alex Darracott went to school as normal one morning, but by lunchtime, his parents Cris and Melissa received a devastating phone call to say Alex had collapsed suddenly. Despite the school initially thinking it could be heatstroke, the nine-year-old from St Helens was soon rushed to Whiston Hospital.
There, he was treated for a viral infection, but tests soon showed the schoolboy had suffered a suspected bleed on the brain and the next morning he was rushed to Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
