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    AUSSIE MUM’S FIGHT I’ll do anything TO SAVE MY BOY

    Apr 06, 2022 3 minutes
    AS TOLD TO LISA BROOKMAN

    The all too familiar crying rang out. I raced into my son’s bedroom and found Harrison, my three-year-old, curled up, body convulsed in pain.

    ‘Sssshh,’ I soothed.

    He flinched in agony at my touch, breaking my heart.

    Ten months ago, Harrison had started losing weight.

    When we were collecting his brother, Miller, then six, from school one day, Harrison got whacked accidentally by a schoolbag.

    Dropping to the floor, Harrison was in so much pain he couldn’t get

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