A mum's fear that something "wasn't right" with her toddler turned out to be a brain tumour. Rachel Porter, 34, claims her two and a half year old son, Luca, was sent home from hospital twice before doctors diagnosed him.
She took her son to Alder Hey Hospital on September 4 after she noticed her son wasn't running right, the ECHO reports. READ MORE:Charlotte felt wiped out walking round Tesco - she knew something wasn't right Doctors ran tests on Luca but didn't find anything wrong with him and referred him to an orthopaedic doctor.
Just two days later Rachel and Dad, David Pennell, 36, then noticed Luca's right eye was 'lazy' and took him back to Alder Hey.
Again, they said everything was okay and sent them home. Over the weekend Luca did not get better and Rachel took him to Ormskirk Hospital. "I knew something wasn't right so we took him to Ormskirk Hospital.
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