A four-year-old British boy was left paralysed after a rare complication of chickenpox led to him suffer from a stroke. Freddie Rushton collapsed at his family home at Stoke-on-Trent in England’s north, in May last year, 11 months after having common childhood chickenpox. The youngster was left unable to stand or speak, and medics warned his parents he may never walk again.
“Every day we don’t know what’s coming, it makes you feel paranoid if he gets a headache or seems a little bit more unstable or behaves differently than usual. “We just have to take each day as it comes. “Now we feel like we’re grieving for the child we thought we would see grow up and we both suffer from the trauma of what happened to Freddie. “We are grieving for the life that we pictured for him but that we just don’t think he will have.