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'My children have a life-limiting illness'
A mother whose three children have a rare genetic disease which means they could die by the time they reach 17 has been describing the heartbreak of finding out about their condition.
Lisa Senior's three children all have mitochondrial disease - it was passed through her genes to 14-year-old Callum, 13-year-old Jack, and four-year-old Maycee.
She told the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Joanna Gosling that she had no idea she was carrier, until the children were given the diagnosis.
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