I was told to say goodbye to my son, 14, after a stroke left him fighting for his life

A 14-year-old boy is having to learn to walk again after what started as a severe headache turned into a stroke.

Stephen Gaskin had been at home with his grandmother while his mum, Katie Gaskin was at work.

The 34-year-old said her mum called her to say Stephen was complaining of headaches and had vomited several times.

Katie, from Herne Bay, Kent, rushed home in September to find her son unconscious and hardly breathing.

The mum-of-four had been six months pregnant at the time and said it had been a 'huge shock' to find her teenage son in such a dire condition.

Sadly, Stephen had suffered a stroke which left him fighting for his life.

He was placed in a medically induced coma and flown to King's College Hospital, where it was revealed that he had a 'massive blood clot' on his brain.

Katie said: "It was the worst day of my life.

“It was all very overwhelming - at one point we were being told to say our goodbyes to Stephen," the mum told .

Medics said the stroke had been bought on by arteriovenous malformation (AVM).

The rare neurological condition means that sufferers have veins and arteries that have become knotted in the brain.

It's rare and occurs in less than one per cent of the population, the states.

Now, Stephen has had surgery to stop another stroke happening, but his mum says that the effects of AVM will stay with him forever.

Stephen has had to see both specialists in London and Surrey, with his mum often making 140 mile round trips to visits medical centres with her son.