Boy's netball injury helped doctor's to spot killer brain tumour

May 10 2012

Aeden Harriet is treated in hospital

A BOY of nine hurt himself playing netball at school and doctors who checked him over found a brain tumour that could have killed him.

Aedan Harriet is now set to fly to the US for treatment, and his family are convinced the chance accident saved his life.

Grandad Robert Rhodes said: If he had not taken unwell that day, he may have carried on as normal.

The doctors said the tumour would have carried on growing, maybe until his teens, and he could just have dropped down dead one day.

Aedan was playing netball at St Marys Primary in Duntocher, near Glasgow, when he bumped into one of his pals and hurt his hip and knee.

He also seemed confused after his fall and teachers asked Robert to come to the school.

Robert and Aedans mum Linsey took him to Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow and tests revealed the tumour at the base of his brain. It had been there since he was born.

Aedan had been suffering from headaches and a sore neck and had been getting tired easily, but no one suspected a brain tumour until he was tested after the netball fall.

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Boy's netball injury helped doctor's to spot killer brain tumour