'Our healthy little boy complained of a headache - now he may never walk or talk again'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe moment Oliwia Kopecka found out her five-year-old son’s brain was dying, she immediately thought of his little sister. ‘They won’t be able to play together,’ she remembers thinking to herself. ‘She’s going to grow up without her big brother’.
Filip Kopecki used to be a happy and healthy child. He loved nothing more than learning and running around with his school friends. READ MORE: Three-year-old's rash was put down to viral infection but was far more serious But all that changed when the youngster suddenly fell ill with a headache last summer.
Filip, now six, first started complaining of head pains in June 2022. A month later, he began vomiting. His parents assumed he had food poisoning from something he’d eaten at school.
But when the sickness returned a few weeks later, they decided to take him to a doctor. The GP sent off for some blood tests and the family awaited the results.
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