Parents devastated after son diagnosed with aggressive cancer after chickenpox fail to disappear

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An Ayrshire mum has told how she “couldn’t cope” with the thought of losing her son after his chickenpox was diagnosed as an extremely aggressive cancer.Victoria McDonald was left heartbroken after her four-year-old boy Calum Rae was told his ‘sore body’ was stage 4 neuroblastoma.The 33-year-old said she cried all night with her partner Andrew Rae, 35, when their brave son was admitted to a specialist cancer ward in Glasgow.The family from Troon spent all night in the same hospital bed after being told the horrible news just hours earlier, with Calum’s baby sister Emily by their side in her buggy.Calum was first rushed into Crosshouse Hospital weeks after overcoming chickenpox in January.But worrying symptoms then appeared, with Calum complaining of full body aches so bad he was left “screaming through the night”.A GP first thought Calum was suffering from shingles but when symptoms failed to clear she sent them straight to the Kilmarnock children’s ward.But their whole world collapsed when a series of MRI scans revealed a tumour above Calum’s kidney with more signs of legions all throughout his bones.Victoria told Ayrshire Live: “We knew it was pretty serious when they told us that he had a tumour, even at that point I didn’t want to think it was cancer.“When the consultant came into tell us, Calum was so unwell that he didn’t want us to leave to the next room, he just kept clinging on.

We carried him through to the room.“The walk down to that room, my heart was just sinking, she was going to say something horrible.“We went in and she said it, she herself was struggling to tell us.

When we started crying Calum just asked why we were crying and said ‘everything is okay, I love you mummy and daddy'.“After we were told we