The youngster’s complex partial epilepsy has meant years of hospital trips and physiotherapy – and has forced him to teach himself to walk four times.
But a pioneering surgery in a hospital in America which would mean taking away almost a quarter of Jake’s brain is giving the Rose family hope that his condition may be cured – but the £100,000 cost of the operation has forced them to start desperately fundraising.
At two years old, Jake was diagnosed with epilepsy and spent time in hospital in the Costa Del Sol, where he lives with his mother Debbie.