A mum is urging parents to "trust your instincts" after a tiny change to her son's eye turned out to be a rare cancer which changed his whole face in just a week. Jessica, 35, and Lee Neal, 38, noticed son Ted's face swelled while they were on holiday.
They thought he had rubbed sand into his eye at the beach - but Jessica had a gut feeling something wasn’t right. Tests revealed the tot had a cancerous tumour in one of his sinuses, so rare it didn't even have a name until Janurary 2022.
Within a week his face had completely changed and he was diagnosed with unspecified sarcoma, which has now been named as mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, in his ethmoid sinus and had chemotherapy and surgery. Later, the cancer sadly spread to his brain and down his spinal cord.
