'We thought our little boy was just clumsy - now we're rushing to make memories before we lose him'

A family are rushing to make memories with their six-year-old son - after what they mistook for 'clumsiness' turned out to be an incurable brain tumour.

Becky Dobson says she noticed that her son Layton Wood, six, began walking into doors and pieces of furniture but put it down to his clumsiness. When Layton started walking 'as though he was drunk' the 'concerned' 31-year-old decided to take her child to the GP .

The mum-of-two was left feeling 'fobbed off' when the GP allegedly said the issue was with Layton's eyesight so referred him to the optician where she was told his eyes were fine . However, after Layton became more unsteady on his feet a 'worried' Becky was forced to take her son to the hospital two weeks later. After multiple tests the mum says she was 'shocked' when doctors diagnosed Layton with an incurable brain tumour on September 1.

The 'heartbroken' carer says that doctors have told her removing the tumour would kill Layton and he is likely to start radiotherapy soon to try and prolong his life. A family member has set up a GoFundMe page to ease the financial pressure of supporting Layton after this 'life changing' diagnosis.

Now Becky urges other parents to 'trust their gut instinct' and get their kids checked out if they notice anything unusual. Becky, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, said: "It was a massive shock to go from the opticians saying it was fine to this.

"It was only a couple of weeks before he was a normal kid. He was very happy and playing and he was going in the pool and loving life. All of a sudden it just turned.

"At first it started with headaches and I thought it might've been because of the hot weather because it was during the heatwave so I obviously gave him Calpol.

"He started becoming very unbalanced on his feet, clumsy and falling. He was walking into doors and I was holding his hand and he walked straight into a pole. I thought he was just a bit clumsy. He has autism so he can be quite clumsy anyway.

"He was walking almost as though he was drunk. He couldn't walk in a straight line and was walking into things and he started drooling. But we noticed it progressively getting worse and that's when we started getting concerned and decided to take it further.

"I took him to the doctors and they just tried saying it was his eyes so I took him to the opticians to get his eyes checked and his eyes were fine. They kind of just fobbed us off to be honest. They just said 'get his eyes checked, it's probably his eyes'.

"It turned out it wasn't his eyes but considering all the symptoms he had I don't understand why they would think it's his eyes and not 'hang on, this could be something more serious'. Then we took him to hospital because he was a lot more unsteady on his feet so we were getting worried about him."

In hospital a CT scan revealed that Layton had swelling on his brain and doctors noticed his right side wasn't cooperating as well as his left-hand side. An MRI scan revealed he had a tumour, as well as a brainstem lesion and hydrocephalus, which is a build-up of fluid on the brain.