”Jaxon was complaining about pain under his arm, then fell asleep for a while. He woke up saying his tummy hurt,” Sammy recalled, speaking with Yorkshire Live.

Later, Jaxon asked to sleep in his mother’s bed, something he always did when he wasn’t feeling well. Sammy gave him a low dose of paracetamol to help bring his fever down, something that typically worked for his usual chest infections.

However, when she woke up around 5 a.m. the following morning, things had taken a horrific turn.

”I used my phone’s torch to check his temperature, and that’s when I saw the rash,” Sammy says, her voice trembling. ”At first, I thought it was chickenpox, but when I turned on the lamp, I realized it was much worse.”