When Blair Robertson was left paralysed from the neck down by a rare disease, doctors warned his parents he only had a 30 per cent chance of recovery.
But the determined lad amazed everyone by walking out of hospital six weeks later. Normally healthy Blair fell ill with meningitis just days after his 14th birthday in March last year.
It triggered a potentially deadly inflammation of his spinal cord that left him unable to walk or talk. Four days after being admitted to Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert with meningitis, he collapsed.
Within hours, he was unable to move his arms and legs. He was rushed to Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children, where it took five MRI scans before he was diagnosed with transverse myelitis.