Hearing the door click, I knew the kids had just got home from school.
It was 20 April 2019 and I had spent the day looking after my daughter Indi, now eight.
‘How was school?’ I asked as my son Alfie, now 16, put his school bag down.
But having watched him come through the door, I noticed he was limping.
‘What did you do to your leg?’ I asked.
‘Oh, I rolled my ankle during cross country,’ he confessed.
But before I could get to the bottom of his sore ankle, Alfie had charged off to play on the trampoline with his brother Finley, 12.
Alfie had always been very active – he loved athletics, and having just started secondary school, he was really enjoying basketball.
So, I was used to a few bumps and bruises.
Only, over the next few days, Alfie’s ankle started getting much
