A 16-month-old boy is fighting a rare type of blood cancer - it affects only one in a million young children every year.
30.05.2023 - 06:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A family have been left devastated after their 16-month-old tot received a heartbreaking diagnosis. Harper Walker was just 13 months old when her parents started noticing a bruise on her eyelid.
Mum Jenny Huddart and dad Adam Walker initially thought the bruise must have come from a minor accident when playing with a toy as baby Harper was becoming more mobile. However, after the bruise kept growing and started to push her eye out of shape, they knew something was wrong.
The family of seven, from Swinton, received the devastating diagnosis just after Easter after a number of tests that Harper a rare form of cancer known as Neuroblastoma, a condition that affects around only 100 children per year. Further tests would go to show this was a stage four, high risk, cancer metastases in multiple locations across her body.
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Mum Jenny told the Manchester Evening News: "Harper was born with hip dysplasia and to to be in a cast until last December and started moving more after that. We noticed in mid-February a little black dot near her eye but because she had been starting to move around more we thought she'd just hit herself with a toy.
"It started changing a bit but we thought maybe she had just rubbed it. But, then we noticed her eye starting to move up, like she had a lazy eye, and we took her to the doctors.
"At first the doctor wasn't concerned and said to come back in two weeks if it hadn't gone but by that point it would have been five weeks. The day after we called to get a referral to an eye specialist but that was going to take another week as it had kept changing shape so we called 111 who told us to
A 16-month-old boy is fighting a rare type of blood cancer - it affects only one in a million young children every year.
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