Jake Kershaw

Jake Lucas David Kershaw 

August 11 2006 - September 5 2008

Age: 2 years old 

Jake wasn't feeling well one day and his parents took him to the doctors who said he had a sore throat and gave me a prescription for antibiotics. They discovered 3 days later (after a post mortem) he had a large benign brain tumour (a cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma) which was never diagnosed and it had started to bleed which itself is quite rare.

Jake had been undergoing tests because he would hold his head to one side and stumble quite a lot but was only showing some of the symptoms of a brain tumour and so was never sent for an MRI.

On September 5, died suddenly at home and in his own bed with his Daddy who had gone to bed with him to keep an eye on him. The tumour had been developing over a period of 4 months and it eventually ruptured.