Little boy with the same incurable illness as Corrie's Oliver Battersby beats odds to celebrate his sixth birthday
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukCorrie storyline has moved viewers to tears as they've watched devastated parents Leanne Battersby and Steve McDonald fight in court to stop their young son's life support from being switched off by the hospital.
The family has found it too painful to watch Oliver's story but they appreciate the hard work the soap has done to raise awareness of mitochondrial disease."We've not been watching it ourselves but we are aware of what's happening," said Yvette."We think it's brilliant that a soap so well watched is raising awarenes."We didn't know anything about it ourselves until Sebastian was diagnosed."Sebastian was diagnosed at eight weeks old because he was constantly vomiting.
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