A MOTHER says she took her eight-year-old daughter to three GPs, five times with crippling back pain before she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer.

Sharon, 35, says a ‘mother’s intuition’ told her something was seriously wrong with her daughter when she started complaining about the pain in early December, last year.

By the time Kaiann was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) on February 12, the little girl was doubled up in agony, on morphine and her spine was fractured and crumbling.

Kaiann, who is from Rutherglen, has just started chemotherapy at the Royal Hospital for Children and faces a long road ahead of aggressive treatment. Doctors can’t say at this stage if it will be successful.The mum-of-three now wants to warn other parents about the symptoms of ALL and to be guided by their intuition.

She said: “If I could take the pain away from Kaiann I would. No child should be going through this.

“Kaiann had pale and yellowing skin and frequent high temperatures and infections but her main symptom was back pain. She had started to be distant, snappy and scared with the pain.”

Sharon did not want to name the GP practice involved but said her daughter was seen by one GP three times, another once and then a different doctor, who referred her for a hospital appointment.

However, Sharon, who also has two sons, aged 17 and two, and is married to Mark, 33, did not wait for that appointment and took her daughter directly to A&E that night.

A consultant at the children’s hospital initially thought the little girl had Osteoporosis but an MRI scan later revealed the devastating diagnosis.

Sharon said: “I had seen the same GP three times, then another doctor and then the final doctor finally listened me.

“I felt as if I was getting fobbed off. It was put down to muscular pain or a virus.

“Kaiann was getting really scared because she couldn’t walk properly and she was getting spasms in her back that were leaving her in agony.

“She came out of school one day, sobbing and bent over and I thought ‘enough is enough.’

“I took her to the doctor again and finally they listened.

“They gave me a referral for hospital but that night I took her to A&E at the children’s hospital.

“They thought it was osteoporosis initially as she had fractures and her spine was crumbling.”

Kaiann was sent home with plans to send her for an MRI in March but collapsed that day and was admitted to the children’s hospital, where a scan revealed she had leukemia.

Sharon, who is a make-up artist, said: “I just collapsed when I heard it but I knew they were going to tell me it as cancer.

“From the day she was born we’ve been inseparable, stuck to each other like glue.

“She’s such a mummy’s girl and the most caring loving wee girl ever.

“She’s planning to donate her hair to the Little Princess Trust.

“It’s been so hard but we will get there and my girl will fight and get better.

“Not every child has the same symptoms but please if you feel the doctors aren’t listening to you and deep down you feel something isn’t right then keep pestering them until they listen.

“Maybe it’s mothers instinct but us mum’s are usually right so don’t stop fighting to be seen.”

A Justgiving page has been set up to help Kaiann’s parents, who have had to give up work to take it in turns to be by her bedside. To make a donation go to https://bit.ly/2SklIxI