Brave disabled young boy endured two major hip surgeries in less than a year

Logan Millar from Greenock is only 11 but this is the second time he has had double surgery - the first taking place when he was only five years old.

Logan is quadriplegic due to cerebral palsy and on the autistic spectrum but despite all his challenges he lives life with a smile on his face and inspires everyone he meets.

His devoted mum, Donna Baynes, said: "He's been so brave the way he has coped with everything.

"Logan's the most loving boy you'd ever meet.

"There have been challenging times over the years, but he keeps me going.

"He has a fantastic nature and is so loving, even on the bad days he still wants his cuddle."

Last April Logan had his left hip reconstructed in an operation lasting almost 10 hours and after it he was in the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow for a spell.

His mum said: "His muscles don't keep up with his growth and his femur was coming out of his hip joint, causing it to dislocate.

"The operation took eight hours and he was so brave.

"He now metal in his leg.

"The surgeons had to cut the femur and rotate it - they scraped out his pelvis to make the socket, then his femur has to be pinned and plated.

"He has a 14 centimetre scar on his leg."

Logan then had the same procedure again in January but thankfully this round of surgery proved more straightforward.

Donna, 34, said: "I hope he won't have to go through the same operation again, but it depends how tall he grows."

Donna who has brought up Logan on her own since he was three, says her son takes everything in his stride and they both have great family support.

Logan attends Whinhill Primary and Craigmarloch School and also enjoys Sports for All sessions at Notre Dame High School once a week, and his bravery shines through in everything he does.

She said: "Most children wouldn't like going into hospital but Logan loves it - it's like a sleepover, having pyjama days and he gets to chill out in bed.

"He knows all his nurses."

The last 11 years have been a real rollercoaster of emotions for Donna, who had to give up up her job as a pharmacy dispenser to care for her son.

He was born prematurely at only 33 and a half weeks and it was a frantic race against time for his mum to get to hospital to give birth.

Donna said: "I was getting early contractions at the roundabout at T Mobile on my way to the Royal Alexandra in Paisley."

Her little one was only 4lb 7oz when he arrived and a lack of oxygen resulted in his disabilities.

Donna said: "He was in an incubator in the neonatal unit in Paisley and he had to learn how to suck.

"The doctors weren't concerned at that time, but as it went on he wasn't hitting his milestones and wasn't trying to roll over or sit up like babies do."

As a young mum with her first baby, Donna said she relied on her mum for advice and after mentioning the situation to her health visitor Logan was monitored by a consultant from the Skylark Children's Centre.

Donna said: "Logan had a brain scan and that confirmed that he had cerebral palsy.

"It takes quite a lot of people to diagnose it.

"We didn't find out until he was one.

"I was distraught - you have this image in your head of what your child will do as they grow older.

"When I see kids out here playing, going to football and all the things they do, I wish he could go out there and join them.

"But he is my world and I wouldn't change him - I fell in love with him as soon as I saw him.

"He's my boy and he's a force to be reckoned with."