Lisa's just Great at running to raise whopping £11k

THANKFUL mum who pounded the streets in last week's Great Birmingham Run has raised more than £11,600 for Birmingham Children's Hospital Charity as thanks for the life-saving brain surgery her 11-year-old son received.

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Lisa Stallard, from Wolverhampton, laced up her trainers to take on the iconic half marathon race around the city, to give back after surgeons at Birmingham Children's Hospital saved her son, Max's life following a brain tumour diagnosis.

One morning in January, Max, who was 10 at the time, developed an excruciating headache. Lisa gave him some pain-killers but they didn't seem to help and then suddenly, Max's eyes began to roll into the back of his head. Lisa and her husband, Matt, called for an ambulance, which blue-lighted Max to their local hospital where he was taken straight for a CT scan.

Doctors were horrified to see a large tumour that was bleeding in Max's brain and without skipping a beat, they called for a KIDS NTS critical-care ambulance to get Max to Birmingham Children's Hospital for specialist care.

Time was of the essence and as soon as Max arrived at Birmingham Children's Hospital he was rushed to theatre where surgeons began an eight-hour operation to remove as much of the tumour as they could see.