A 13-year-old boy who dreamed of becoming a professional footballer was told he will never walk again after being hit with a rare blood clot in his spinal cord. Kyle Burns, from Galston, Ayrshire, collapsed suddenly after training and was rushed to hospital with a suspected back strain. She told the Daily Record: 'Just hours earlier he had been running around playing the sport he lived for and then we were being told Kyle would never walk again.' Kyle's condition was so rare that doctors at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock had to take advice from experts in London. Ms Burns was told doctors couldn't operate on her son and she was faced with the devastating news that there was no treatment for his condition.

Source: Daily Mail May 18, 2019 08:15 UTC