Mum’s devastation after her twin sons are both diagnosed with leukaemia within months of each other
Logan and Regan Skinner, aged six, were diagnosed when mum Casey noticed their skin was yellow and easily bruised
A MUM has revealed her horror after both of her twin sons were diagnosed with leukaemia.
Logan and Regan Skinner, aged six, were found to have the potentially fatal illness within months of each other, when their skin started to turn yellow and began bruising easily.
Logan, who is six minutes older than his brother, became ill at the age of two, and was immediately diagnosed in August 2012. Regan was then diagnosed after him mum noticed similar symptoms.
Mum Casey, 25, explained: "Because they are identical twins, they were at a higher risk.
"In the beginning, doctors said it was an 85 per cent chance of survival, but the chance of relapse is higher in the first years of treatment.
"Regan wasn't unwell when he was diagnosed but he had got an identical bruise to Logan."
Both had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, a rapidly progressing and aggressive form of the disease - but one which has a high survival rate of around 70 per cent.
During his treatment, Logan then developed septicaemia and Casey, a social work student, thought she was going to lose her son.
She said: "One of the worst moments was when Logan was diagnosed with septicaemia.
"I just remember when I took him into hospital and when you see the nurses panicking and they are screaming for the doctors. We thought, 'He might die now,'.
"Luckily they got him straight on treatment, that's when you realise how serious it is.
"You think it won't happen to me or my kids and then you realise that you are not invincible and that's so scary."
Casey, from Boston, Lincolnshire, said: "I remember saying if Regan does get it I won't be as scared. It's not just life or death, you have to sit in a big hospital and I thought second time round I would be okay dealing with it.
"When I was told Regan did have the disease it hit me so hard. I wondered whether I would be able to look after both of them - but I got through it."
Logan, who has finished his treatment, was given six months of intensive chemotherapy. Meanwhile, Regan was given four months and is due to finish next month.
After their courses of treatment they both have to have maintenance checks - including blood tests - every four weeks for the next three years.
The boys will also have to have a lumbar puncture, where fluid is drained from the spine, every 12 weeks, and they'll have have yearly check-ups for the rest of their lives.
Mum Casey, who lives with her partner, 24-year-old Darren, also said she had been helped by various charities, including the Make a Wish foundation.
She said: "The Make a Wish Foundation gave us a hot tub for Regan.
"Logan wished to go to Disneyland Florida, which we are doing this April."
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