Thank you for helping us to face this deadly disease

8:59am Thursday 1st May 2008

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A DRAKES Broughton mother has sent out a message of thanks to everyone who supported her family with her son's recovery from phneumococcal meningitis and septicaemia.

For Cole Forse, aged three-and-a-half, is now "just like any other toddler" and is well on the road to recovery since being struck down by the deadly disease two years ago.

He has learnt to walk again in the last year and had cochlear implants fitted to improve his hearing as the illness left him profoundly deaf.

Now his mother Annabelle, dad Robert and two sisters Susan and Lynda, aged nine-and-a-half, want to say thank you to everyone who has rallied round to help them.

Mrs Forse, of Beech Avenue, said: "We would all really like to say a big, massive thank you to everyone who was there for us. Cole has come a long way against all odds. It has taken a long time but he is just like a regular toddler and is still a cheeky little monkey. He is doing really well. You don't realise how caring people are until something like this happens."

Cole was in hospital in Worcester and Stoke-on-Trent for four weeks when he was 18-months-old battling the illness in May 2006.

Mrs Forse, a part-time cleaner, described the ordeal as horrendous' as Cole was like a newborn baby again when he returned home.

She added: "He could just about move his head back but now he is doing great."

Mrs Forse also thanked staff at Hopscotch Pre-school. Cole attends the Pershore pre-school and she said the staff have been fantastic'.