Boy told muscle pain was 'too much screen time' given months to live

A schoolboy has been diagnosed with incurable brain cancer - after a GP allegedly told him his muscle pain was caused by "too much screen time". Ronnie Hood, 11, was given just nine months to live in March after doctors discovered he had a diffuse midline glioma. The Year Six pupil had been experiencing unbearable neck pain for a year, but his family claim a GP simply ordered physio - saying the issue was due to the gamer "playing on his phone too much". When his symptoms didn't improve, and physio exercises left him "crying in pain", Ronnie's parents Vicky, 50, and Nick, 58, pushed for an MRI scan. Ronnie was finally examined in February - and his results revealed a tumour growing "like an octopus" on his brain stem near the top of his spine. Nick said that finding out his little boy had brain cancer was like "being hit by a bus". He said: "Ronnie wasn’t getting any better. He cried in pain and frustration and then had a numbness in his right hand. "When we got the results of the MRI,...