A family has been left devastated after their four-year-old, who they were told had a virus, was diagnosed with a brain tumour which has left him unable to walk.

Kiren Rathore, from Gillingham, will be selling brownies, cookies and blondies at Rochester City Vintage and Artisan Market on Easter Saturday to raise cash for her nephew, who needs special clothes and equipment after undergoing two massive operations.

Yuvraj Singh (known as Babbalu), was diagnosed with a brain tumour in January and has since undergone a 13-hour operation, which took place on his fourth birthday, followed by surgery lasting 22 hours two weeks later. He is now waiting to start 10 weeks of radiotherapy to tackle a massive brain tumour which has left him paralysed down his left side and unable to walk.

The family's heartbreaking situation first started around Christmas time when Babbalu mentioned a pain in his ear. His parents Kiren and Harvey, from Rochester, didn’t think too much of it until he became increasingly irritated by the pain and they noticed the left side of his face and arm had dropped.

Kiren took him straight to the doctor's to get it checked out. But despite her speedy response, it took a further four visits before doctors realised it might be something more serious.

She said: "I took him five times. We were told it was a virus, that he was just being lazy and that his arm wasn't broken and it was fine."

When Kiren told the doctors that has was also sleeping all day they said he was just being a toddler and it was normal.

It was only on their fifth visit that Babbalu was finally referred to Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, where he was given a CT scan and then immediately blue-lighted straight to Kings College Hospital in London.

'He was crying for his trainers and shouting at me to put them on'

The next day Babbalu was due to be celebrating his fourth birthday with a party for his nursery friends. Instead he underwent a 13-hour brain operation and did not wake up until the next day.

Kiren said: "Those first few days were just a complete daze. We were just crying. It was a shock and we just couldn't accept it.

"He had always been such a happy, funny, kind little boy."

The operation did not manage to remove the tumour due to its size and two weeks later Babbalu was back on the operating table again, this time for 22 hours.

Kiren said waiting for him to come out of surgery was the hardest part up to that point.

"It was the worst 22 hours of my life," she said. "It was just terrible."

His parents kept themselves occupied by heading back to Rochester to stock-up on essentials and visit Babbalu's five-year old sister, Kareena who is staying with her grandparents.

After the operation Babbalu was left unable to walk, talk or eat. Over the next few days he started to eat and talk but his mobility has not come back.

"He cannot walk and he cannot use the whole left side of his body," his mum said.

The family are spending every day by his bedside on the neuroward as he prepares to start 10 weeks of radiotherapy, which will cause tiredness and vomiting.

While Babbalu is trying to play with his cars with his right hand, his mum said he is becoming increasingly frustrated that he cannot walk.

"The other day he was crying for his trainers. He was shouting at me to get them and put them on. He wants to walk and he is getting very frustrated."

To take him out his family need a wheelchair. When he comes home from hospital he will also need a specialist bed.

Kiren, who owns pop-up bakery Little Sugar & Co, is hoping her market stall will raise some of the money.

"I'm hoping to raise around £500. I wish I could raise more but I run the bakery single-handedly," she said.

"Babbalu needs a wheelchair, an adapted bed and special shoes. He also needs bigger clothes as the clothes he has don't fit over his head. Where he has had his operation we have to be really careful with his head, as he has scars."

Babbalu's parents have been taking it in turns to stay with him in London and his dad has given up his job at Thames Water to care for his son and family as they go through this difficult time.

"They have no source of income," Kiren said. "So the money raised will be to support with everyday essentials. Parking at the hospital costs a fortune. Food and drinks and things Babbalu might need."

The family also return to Rochester a few times a week to visit Kareena, so they spend a lot of money on petrol.

Friends of the family have set up a gofundme page, which has already raised over £11,000. To donate click on this link.

For information on where to find Kiren's stall on Saturday head to her instagram page @littlesugarandco.