A mother within the U.K. is warning other parents after her teenage son’s rash and pain from the waist down transpired into something unimaginably dangerous.

Jessica, a mum-of-three living in Middleton, Greater Manchester, said she gave her 16-year-old autistic son Harvey paracetamol and ibuprofen to ease his “agonizing” pain, but no improvement was in sight. The pain, in reality, grew worse in only a number of days, and caused Harvey mobility issues, Manchester Evening News reported.

Harvey’s reactions to his ache were in contrast to his history of high pain threshold, which was a red flag for Jessica, who took her son to Oldham Hospital’s A&E department, where doctors “felt his back” and said Harvey’s “muscles were tight.”

They sent him back home with diazepam.

A number of days later, Harvey began experiencing debilitating pain and would cry in his room at night. Jessica decided to run him a warm bath to attempt to soothe his pain and that’s when she noticed the rash spread to his arms.

“As he got here out of the bathtub he noticed a rash coming on his arm and said he had it on his feet. All I could describe it as was speckly, like burst blood vessels where the blood involves the surface of the skin,” Jessica told the Manchester Evening News. “We had taken him to A&E since it had escalated to the purpose where he couldn’t walk. He was in absolute agony.”

This time around, Harvey was given morphine and a medical consultant carried out a number of blood tests, before breaking it to his family that the teenager has leukemia, a cancer that forms in blood tissues, affects the bone marrow and the lymphatic system.

The form of leukemia that Harvey had was essentially the most common one to affect children.

“In my head, I just knew we were going to get the worst news from those results, which we did. Throughout the day they were telling us the treatment plan for Harvey,” Jessica said.

Harvey was transferred to Royal Manchester Kid’s Hospital that very same day. There, he underwent a four-week long treatment of grueling and intensive chemotherapy as a part of the induction stage. Now, Harvey stays bedridden and has been prescribed three a number of medication each week.

The heartbroken mother said Harvey is struggling to address the unintended effects of the chemo sessions.

“They’ll essentially blast him with the chemotherapy. It’s absolutely horrendous,” Jessica said. “He has grow to be nauseous, lethargic, and is hardly eating anything. It totally weakens his whole immune system.”

Doctors at the moment are uncertain about Harvey’s fate, and haven’t any clear idea whether he’ll remain bed sure or on the road to recovery. Nonetheless, they’re holding out hope that recovery is feasible on account of his age.

“Harvey may very well be stuck there for months, all of it just relies on how his body reacts, although due to his age, they do generally have positive outcomes,” Jessica told Manchester Evening News. “It’s an absolute whirlwind, an emotional rollercoaster, but from going through this we understand how necessary it’s to not only accept the primary answer you are given when you feel something is unsuitable especially because children and teenagers have falls or bumps on a regular basis, but it surely could still be something sinister. My fear is other teenagers could present with these pains and never know they’re in danger. They simply need easy blood tests to get the answers and rule it out.”

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