Sara Cox breaks down in tears after girl’s story of brother’s death inspires her Children in Need challenge

Sara Cox becomes emotional as she details heartbreaking death which inspired Children in Need challengeBBC

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00:00He seemed to struggle a bit with his walking, a little bit of balance.

00:03He always wanted to hold you for some support.

00:06Started complaining that the words were merging together on the page.

00:10Got into hospital, got him checked and was diagnosed with a really strange,

00:15rare brain condition called adrenal leukodystrophy.

00:20You're trying to come to terms with something yourself and you've also got to tell

00:23his sister that at some point she's not going to have a brother anymore.

00:31My dad told me, your brother's really, really poorly.

00:35It was hard to watch and every day it just got worse.

00:41Sarah, it really makes you realise when you're when you're doing all this,

00:46when you hear stuff like that, don't you?

00:49Thank you to everybody who's given any penny.

00:51If you're lucky enough to be blessed with healthy children,

00:54and if you're lucky enough to feel that your children are happy and healthy,

00:58we're so blessed.

00:59Thank you so much for every penny.

01:03I'm going to run for Maddie today.

01:05I'm going to run for Maddie.