“You can’t ever imagine skin being so fragile just cuddling your child can tear their skin off.”
Twenty month old Albi was born with a severe form of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), a disorder which causes his skin to break out in blisters or tear with the slightest friction.
Every day, Albi has to wear bandages from his neck to his toes help to heal his skin, and it takes his parents two hours to remove and reapply them daily.
Parents Erin Ward, 22, and Calum Blackman, 26, said the condition is life limiting and they wish he could be wrapped in cotton wool to protect him but they want him to “have fun and live his life too”.
Video edited by Tink Llewellyn
