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'Sledging saved my life' Scot teen's snow accident leads to cancer diagnosis after doctor's visit
07.01.2022 - 12:33 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scottish teenager who suffered from back pains is battling cancer after a sledge fall prompted him to visit the doctors.
Aidan Hogg, 16, began experiencing back pain following a fall off a sledge in February 2021.
The schoolboy from Edinburgh was just 15 when his lower back started aching, and after doing a urine test, doctors prescribed antibiotics for a misdiagnosed kidney infection.
However, not long after, Aidan lost all feeling within his legs, and unable to stand or walk alone - he was rushed to a hospital where MRI tests revealed cancerous tumours on his spinal cord.
Now eleven months on, Aidan is in remission and learning how to walk again.
Aidan said: "We'd had some snow, and I enjoyed myself going out sledging.
"It had been icy and foggy, so I ended up coming off the sledge.
"Not long after, I started getting pains in my lower back so I assumed it was from the fall.
"It didn't go away so I went to the doctors who gave me antibiotics for a kidney infection, they never really helped, or made much of a difference."
Aidan's health took a turn for the worse on March 4 2021, when he lost the ability to walk and all feeling within his legs.
He said: "I was struggling to sleep and was awake till 4am, I sat on the edge of my bed, and when I tried to swing my legs back, I couldn't.
"I had to grab them with my arms and lift them into bed.
"One minute, my legs were fine, the next, they weren't.
"My mum, Emma, 41, was with me, and she thought it was really weird.
"I tried to get out of bed, and I fell to the floor, my mum decided that I needed to go to the hospital and helped me down the stairs."
Due to being 15 at the time, Aidan, and his stepdad were turned away from the Royal Infirmary and redirected to the Royal Hospital for
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