'Get checked out': Warning of parents whose son's pains and rash were much more serious
Jessica had just run her bath for her teenage son Harvey to help with his severe back and leg pains. For days, she had been giving him tablets prescribed to help him cope with the 'agonising' pains - but nothing seemed to be working.
"As he came out of the bath he noticed a rash coming on his arm and said he had it on his feet. All I could describe it as was speckly, like burst blood vessels where the blood comes to the surface of the skin," Jessica told the Manchester Evening News. "They came back in straight away and told us it was Leukaemia," Jessica said. "It was horrendous. His dad was with him and I was at home. When they phoned me to tell me I remember just screaming. I broke down.
From February 15, a four-week long treatment of gruelling and intensive chemotherapy commenced as part of the induction stage, with Harvey now taking three lots of medication each week.
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