My daughter Libby stopped in the street and looked up hopefully. ‘Carry me, Mummy?’ she smiled. It was 2016 and at five, she never seemed to want to walk anywhere. Laughing, I hoisted her up on to my hip.
I assumed Libby was just being lazy, but a few days later she spent a whole day hopping on one leg. ‘My knee’s hurting,’ she said.
Her dad took her to A&E to check it was nothing serious. But when he rang from Pontefract Hospital, he sounded worried.
‘They’re keeping her in,’ he gasped, explaining the doctors seemed concerned and wanted to run some tests.
She was transferred to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield and we
