"Mike and I were just thinking of his brothers, thinking whether we were being selfish hanging on to him when he must be suffering so much.

"He's so close to his brothers it was such a hard decision, but the doctors said his organs were failing and there was nothing they could do.

"His temperature was fluctuating through the night and his heart rate was at 200, we were just waiting for him to enter cardiac arrest - as awful as that sounds.

"So we baptised him and said out final goodbyes and at 8am on the Saturday they turned his muscle sedatives off in preparation for the ventilator to be switched off.

"But when they did that suddenly he started struggling in his bed. We thought he was brain dead from oxygen starvation, so he shouldn't have been moving.

"Then the consultant rushed in and said his blood tests showed his organs weren't failing.

"We were trying not to be hopeful, but we just sat by him and hoped and over the weekend he got stronger and stronger.

"We had told Bryce that Dylan wasn't coming back, so when we explained that he had got better Dylan said: 'Oh, so he's like Jesus then.'