15-Year-Old Boy Left Wheelchair-Bound With Life-Threatening Liver Disease

A 15-year-old boy has been left wheelchair-bound with a life-threatening liver disease - after doctors dismissed his symptoms SIX times saying he was just a "moody teenager." Sam Fitzgerald was a regular teenage boy only 18 months ago and enjoyed nothing more than a game of football with his friends at school. But in March last year his mum, Jackie Courtney, 41, started to notice a change in her son who wasn't being himself and had an increasingly short temper. She took him to his GP on a monthly basis but on each occasion his problems were dismissed as "hormones" and "teenage problems".