A heartbroken mum assumed her daughter had simply eaten too much at a kids' party when she fell sick - only for it be a cancerous brain tumour. Seven-year-old Lexi Bryant began throwing up on the school run after attending a family party, leading her mum Belinda Bryant to believe she had just 'overindulged' or picked up a tummy bug.
But when the schoolgirl was still being sick a week later, her parents became concerned something more serious was going on and took her to their local GP. Belinda believes doctors 'failed' Lexi as she claims the youngster was sent home from 20 hospital visits over the next five weeks, despite her daily vomiting becoming so severe she burst a blood vessel and lost weight rapidly.
But the 30-year-old mum says doctors at East Surrey Hospital repeatedly sent her on her way and refused to do further testing as Lexi always 'bounced back' by the afternoon. A CT scan eventually revealed that she has a brain tumour and in a further two blows, an MRI scan found a second tumour on her spine before a biopsy confirmed that both are cancerous.
