{"id":761752,"date":"2026-09-06T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761752\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:04:09","slug":"wakefield-boy-starts-school-after-spending-christmas-in-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/761752\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakefield boy starts school after spending Christmas in coma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A four-year-old boy has started school this week, less than a year after he spent Christmas in a coma. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oliver, from Wakefield, was in Leeds General Infirmary for five months after he was diagnosed with a type of blood cancer in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the brutal side effects he suffered, doctors managed to successfully treat Oliver and he is now in remission, having left hospital on New Year&#8217;s Day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The young pupil&#8217;s mum, Cora, said it was &#8220;extra special&#8221; watching her son start his reception year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oliver fell ill on Mother&#8217;s Day last year and was subsequently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma, which had affected his abdomen, spine, brain fluid, kidneys, and liver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He underwent intensive chemotherapy, which left him with red-raw ulcers on his mouth and a depleted immune system, which meant he had to be kept in isolation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A four-year-old boy has started school this week, less than a year after he spent Christmas in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-761752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}