Seven-month-old Oliver Francis was born nine weeks premature and developed a capillary haemangioma while on a breathing machine in hospital. The benign growth on his right eye - caused by overdeveloped blood vessels - swelled up to the size of a pea when Oliver was five weeks old. After his eye closed up completely, medics at Burton Queen's Hospital referred Oliver for specialist treatment at Birmingham Children's Hospital in July last year. Parents Tasha, 25, and Mike, 34, were told to administer propranolol to reduce the tumour's growth but it left Oliver suffering persistent nose bleeds. But despite Tasha and Mike's pleas for help, doctors simply increased the drug dosage and refused to operate.