A teenager received a heart breaking leukaemia diagnosis after his concerned head teacher phoned home to his parents, Manchester Evening News reports. Connor Ellerton had previously suffered with multiple ear infections but his GP was not worried about them and prescribed him with antibiotics.
The then 14-year-old, from Merseyside, carried on as normal until his head teacher rang his mother in 2019 after Connor's rugby team training session to inform her something was wrong. The school asked his parents, Joanne and Ian to come and collect him and they decided to take him to A&E.
Joanne said: "Connor had an ear infection and the doctor gave him some antibiotics but it kept happening. The doctor kept giving him antibiotics but then over the summer holidays he was training with his school rugby team and the headteacher rang asking us to come and pick him up.
