A 10-year-old lad who was diagnosed with multiple brain tumours has been given the news he's going to be in remission.
David Lally, from New Brighton, was diagnosed with three large brain tumours and several smaller ones after complaining of "headaches and flickering in his right eye."
But after months of chemotherapy with multiple courses to try and shrink the tumours, David has been given the news he is cancer free and will be getting his line out next week.
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David was featured in the ECHO last year where dad Chris described the ordeal as "mentally draining" before adding it was in "God's hands."
Chris and mum Kelly told the ECHO they "cried their eyes out" when they found out the happy news after they thought they would lose David.
Chris, 36, said: "We just looked at each other and started bawling our eyes out.
"If you look back at where he was to start with to now, it's amazing. I don't know how he's done it.
"I honestly thought we were going to lose him.
"It's hard. It's very hard. I wouldn't wish it on my worse enemy."
"We were always going to fight for him but I was so worried. It was out of our hands."
Kelly, 34, said David has been a "little soldier" throughout.
Chris adds David has thrown himself into every challenge he's had on the journey the family have had with cancer, doing it all with a smile on his face.
He added: "He's never stopped smiling.
"We never told him that he had cancer, we just said he needed to get rid of some lumps.
"A stranger in the street told him so we had to sit him down and explain what was happening.
"We told him we're in the battle together. Anything he was going to go through, we'd go through with him.
"He's a big WWE fan and we told him wrestler Roman Reigns had beaten cancer.
"David just said I'm going to beat it, I'm going to smash its head in.
"He just does not care. He's just carried on and on. I don't know what I'd have been like — I think I'd have crumbled.
"What a feeling. What a feeling when we heard he was in remission."
Because of the ordeal, David hasn't been able to go to school which dad Chris calls an "absolute nightmare."
David will soon also have a dog to help him take his mind of his cancer history after a previous family pet sadly passed away.
David's parents hope this will help him forget the cancer and "focus his mind on usual kid stuff."
Chris and Kelly are looking forward to David getting back to being a normal 10-year-old after he's missed out on over a year of his life.
David is a massive Liverpool FC and boxing fan — and has received support from the region's boxing community who have invited him to fights.
Chris said the support shown to David has been incredible in terms of the amount of people who have rallied around him to help him beat cancer.
Chris even got a tattoo of David's scar on his head to show his son he's not alone in his fight with cancer.
Chris said: "The support has been class. We've got a little group around us who have helped keep us on the straight and narrow.
"They've seen David at his worst but just adore him and have circled around us as a family.
The Owen Mcveigh Foundation have been absolutely amazing.
"There's just too many people who have supported us through this time.
"There's a guy called Roger Jones who is from KR Courier and Transport who has been financially supporting us.
"A couple of girls set up a GoFundMe page for David so we could take him away on holiday. We're going to Benidorm in September.
"John and Helen Owens, Sheri and Harry, Hailey Francis, my mum and dad, Kelly's mum and dad, particularly David's grandad Steve. He's been our rock.
It's been hard for us, but so many people have flooded around us."
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