A miracle Scots child owes her life to medical doctors who made her the fourth UK youngster to have a groundbreaking surgical procedure.
After an open-heart operation in Glasgow when she was simply weeks outdated, Lucy Hunter’s mum Claire, 37, and pop David, 41, didn’t realise worse was to return.
Had it not been for the surgeons at Nice Ormond Road Hospital (GOSH) in London, Lucy wouldn't have survived.
Now Lucy’s household is urging Scots to dig deep to help different kids by serving to to boost £105,000 to purchase two high-tech echocardiogram machines, which take a coronary heart ultrasound.
The life-saving machines picked up Lucy’s downside a year-and-a-half later, displaying stress on her coronary heart.
She was despatched to GOSH as a result of there wasn’t a specialist in Glasgow.
Claire, from Uddingston, Lanarkshire, mentioned: “That was a shock in itself however I used to be saying to them, ‘What can we do to repair her?’ They mentioned there was no remedy. I used to be devastated.
“All I might suppose was, ‘How lengthy has she acquired?’ However they couldn’t inform us.
“From then on, each wee milestone Lucy met was so treasured.”
Lucy’s situation worsened and by age two the one hope for her was to have a lung transplant or a Potts shunt to assist her coronary heart perform.
Claire mentioned: “The Potts shunt had solely been carried out on three kids within the UK, Lucy can be the fourth.”
The shunt means Lucy, now seven, now not has to have intravenous medicine.
She nonetheless has common echo machine check-ups by Gosh medics. Gosh Charity has launched a Important Gear Enchantment to fund them.
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Claire mentioned: “Folks could marvel why they need to increase cash for a London hospital however greater than half the youngsters handled there are from outdoors London – together with kids like Lucy.”
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