Scots mum devastated after five-year-old with 'tonsillitis' given leukaemia diagnosis

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A devastated Scots mum has told how her "world collapsed" when her five-year-old boy was diagnosed with leukaemia. Stephanie Dalziel, from Penilee in Glasgow, first noticed that her son Blake Gallagher was starting to lose weight in November last year.

After doctors first thought the schoolboy was suffering with tonsillitis, further tests carried out revealed he had blood cancer.The bubbly youngster had never been unwell before and when Stephanie was told the horrific news she didn't know how to react.The 29-year-old told Glasgow Live: "He only started school in August so I thought it was the usual bugs you'd catch from school - but something just wasn't right.

We took him to A&E because he was losing weight and wasn't eating or drinking."It was initially put down as tonsillitis so we took him home and started on antibiotics, but they never helped at all.

We went back about a week later and did bloods."They came back abnormal and I think they knew what was happening but they didn't want to tell me directly."I started to think he might just be anaemic and we'd just need iron tablets.