A 'FUNNY and courageous' little boy passed away barely a year after receiving a shocking diagnosis. Albie Bayliss-Watts was initially diagnosed with tonsillitis and tummy bugs when he suffered a sudden seizure and began vomiting blood . But just weeks later, he was diagnosed with a brain tumour so rare it could not be identified.
His death at just two years old left his two mums heartbroken - and his rare cancer has still not been named. Prior to October 2020, Albie was a "happy and healthy baby", mums Lauren and Hayley shared in blog for Brain Tumour Research . After he suffered a seizure out of the blue, his worried mums took him to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where medics initially assumed the tot was suffering from tonsillitis that "had caused him to have convulsions".
The next day, doctors told the parents that Albie was probably suffering from a type of epilepsy and referred him to a neurologist. Albie was due to see a consultant six weeks later when he started being sick. Initially thinking this was caused by a bug, Lauren and Hayley grew "really worried" when their baby began vomiting blood.
Back at the hospital, the mums were reassured that a sickness bug had probably caused the lining of Albie's stomach to bleed. But despite being given fluids and tests seeming to come back normal, the one-year-old continued to deteriorate. At this point, doctors decided to look at Albie's brain to explain his symptoms.
A CT scan and MRI scan revealed a mass the size of a ten.