Finlay Ritchie was just seven weeks old when brain surgery was first mentioned to his parents, Kali and Martin.
“We felt completely numb going home on the train afterwards,” Kali says. “But Finlay had no future at that point – and neither did we.”
On a bad day, their baby boy was having around 100 seizures a day, which were characterised by shivering and whimpering, followed by shaking, jerking and crying.