Doctors assured a mother that her boy’s squinting was caused by a virus, but the truth was far more serious.
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Laura Kelly and her husband Cheyne’s lives have been “turned upside down” by their son Noah’s diagnosis.
Ms Kelly is urging parents to “trust their instincts” and get a second diagnosis when in doubt, reports the Mirror.
Originally from Sydney, Australia, the boy began showing unusual eye movements at the age of 16 months.
Photo from Instagram
“In the middle of the night Noah was throwing up and we found him shaking and feverish so we went to the ER at 3am,” the couple told Web.
His eye had an ominous habit of turning inward. Worse still, he had trouble walking properly.
According to her parents, doctors attributed the cause to a virus affecting her eye muscles.
“They concluded that his squint was due to an eye muscle problem and suggested that using glasses or eye patches could fix it,” the young mother continued.
Photo from Instagram
However, an MRI revealed what every parent dreads: a tumor “the size of a small tangerine” in the boy’s brain.
Little Noah suffered from stage IV brain cancer.
This revelation is all the more shocking given that Noah is her “miracle baby” given that he was born to Laura after two miscarriages.
“It was devastating news and parents don’t want to hear about their baby,” she said.
Noah underwent surgery and chemotherapy to heal him, and his parents say his condition is improving.
The family opened a GoFundMe page to help pay for her treatment and commended her loved ones and the local community for the support she has received.