Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd’s love child suffers so much pain due to rare illness that he wants to bite his own arm off
Tot’s mum speaks of heartbreak
THE mother of Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd’s love child has opened up about her young son’s painful struggle with rare neurological AHC.
Standing for Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood, it causes sudden and painful paralysis of a portion of the body at random, including the face.
Little Greyson, five, has daily medication and needs liquid medicine, syringing into his mouth when he has an attack, which takes place about once a month.
Jack, 28, who plays Corrie’s David Platt, has never met the lad, but pays maintenance after demanding a DNA test after the child was born.
Already dad to two children Nyla and Reuben with fiancée Lauren Shippey, Greyson was conceived after a one-night stand with Sammy, 30, from Rotherham, South Yorks, behind his lover’s back.
Sammy took to Twitter to reveal the agony that Greyson endures each time his body is racked by an attack of the complaint.
She said: “Hate seeing my lil dude poorly, just stopped him biting an pulling his arm saying mummy arm to go. Another arm mummy. #Hearbreaking.”
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But she also shared touching snaps of the lad laughing on a trip to the seaside after picking up a brand new Audi A5 4x4.
Sammy said: “Had such a productive day, me an lil dude took the car to the coast, got soo much love for this kid.”
The lad’s illness has also meant he is a year behind starting school and Sammy has been fighting council bureaucracy to make he gets a place in September.
She slammed Rotherham Council on Twitter, revealing they were “clearly taking the pi#$ when it comes to my sons education”.
What is AHC?
Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) is a rare neurological disorder. It causes repeated, transient attacks of hemiplegia (paralysis of a portion of the body, including the face) and can be very painful for the child. Triggers for attacks include environmental conditions, water exposure, light, physical activities, foods, emotional response, odors, fatigue and medications. Although named “of childhood” those affected by AHC do not grow out of it. Episode may change and sometimes decrease in frequency with age. While it can be managed with medication, there is currently no cure.
And she Tweeted the town’s Labour MP John Healey for help.
A source told The Sun Online: “Sammy is so brave. She is fighting tooth and nail for Greyson.
“Jack knows his son has the condition. Sammy doesn’t need his help but you’d think he would have some interest in his own flesh and blood and how he is getting on.”
They added: “Sammy is strong enough to cope on her own but what she does struggle to cope with is how a man can turn his back on his own flesh and blood.”