The family of a three-year-old boy have shared how he carries around fake eyes in a rucksack with him every day after a tragic start to life - which saw him just one week from a potentially lethal cancer spreading to his brain.
Freddie Swan’s parents started becoming concerned that all did not seem quite right with his left eye. In May of 2019, concerned mum Keighley, 28, started to worry when initial tests failed to diagnose the problem, but she says she just knew something was wrong.
After having to see specialists in Birmingham to get answers, Freddie was just 12 weeks old when he was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a type of eye cancer, later that spring. The only option was for the little boy to have his eye completely removed.
