WALES: Why was Thomas left to risk paralysis for FOUR YEARS? BOY FINALLY GETS NECK OP AS MUM ASKS...(News) From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: May 13, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: By HYWEL TREWYN

A SIX-YEAR-old boy who broke two vertebrae in his neck in a playground fall is finally getting treatment - four years after his potentially life-threatening injury.

Thomas Baynton Joyce had complained of a "cramping pain" in his neck ever since he fell playing near his Denbigh home in 2003 aged 18 months.

This April surgeons at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool operated on Thomas and tried to fuse the broken vertebrae. But the...