Six-year-old boy found with rash on Christmas Day given heartbreaking diagnosis
28.01.2022 - 08:27
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A concerned mum who discovered an unusual rash all over her young son's skin on Christmas Day later found out he was suffering was cancer.
Danielle Everson, who had googled six-year-old Kian's symptoms, was already prepared for the worst when doctors at Grange Hospital in Cwmbran diagnosed him with early stage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, Wales Online reports.
A month later, the Blackwood youngster is now into his fourth week of chemotherapy and has been bravely facing with symptoms whilst also battling Covid - but he and his family are keeping positive.
The mum-of-four said: “Kian was really poorly and it was in December, sort of mid-December.
“I put it down to his friends at school having Covid and colds going around. Kian didn’t have Covid at the time but he had a cold and a cough.
“He was awfully pale but because he’d been kickboxing with his twin brother I just thought it was probably because the boys were being a bit rough with him.
“It was only when I noticed he had little purple pin-prick marks over him when I thought I needed help. I googled the symptom and it said the marks were a sign of leukaemia. So I phoned my dad and said 'I think Kian has cancer' and he said: ‘Don’t believe everything you read on Google’.
“I waited until the Monday but the doctors still wasn’t open so I rang 111. He was so fatigued, he had no energy and kept going back to bed.
“We went up to the Grange and within two hours we found out he had leukaemia.”
Staff at the Grange told Danielle how important it was that she’d seen the signs of leukaemia early and acted fast.
“I wasn’t shocked with the news,” she said. “It’s mother’s instinct isn’t it? Something kicked in. Of course it’s very sad news and not what we wanted to hear but we’re pleased