Four-year-old Ralph looks like any other child. He’s happy, fearless and he loves to play. Behind his confident character lies a very rare, very aggressive invisible condition that is slowly taking away his abilities
His mum, Hayley, described how she learned her youngest son would face an unbelievable battle in his first few months. “Ralph was a difficult baby from day one, the complete opposite to his big brother Freddie,” she explained. “Everyone always used to say ‘it’s second child syndrome, you never get two easy ones.”