S0urce: The Daily Mail >> Read Full Article and Comment
Until three months ago Aaron Vincent was a boisterous youngster who loved playing football.
But when he was struck down by a mystery illness, doctors made the devastating discovery that he had an enlarged heart.
Since then the three-year-old has been at a specialist unit, where a machine called a Berlin heart has been keeping him alive.
Brave face: Aaron with his mother Andrea Middlemass. The tubes connect to an artificial heart keeping him alive
It is helping him to pump blood round his body while he waits for news of a possible heart transplant.
Yesterday his mother Andrea Middlemass, 34, told how the family plans to celebrate Christmas Day this year around his hospital bed.
She begged for organ donors to come forward and register, saying: ‘Please help give my son the gift of life this Christmas.’
Aaron suddenly fell ill in September while playing, and was taken to Sunderland Royal Hospital.
‘They thought it was a really bad asthma attack at first,’ explained his mother. ‘But he had pneumonia and a collapsed lung, and an ultrasound scan showed he had an enlarged heart. It was his first ever visit to a hospital.’
Aaron, from Easington Lane, Tyne and Wear, was immediately transferred to a specialist unit at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital.
He was put on the transplant list and connected to the Berlin heart because of his severe condition.
Enlarged heart: Aaron now has to use a Berlin heart machine to keep his blood pumping
Miss Middlemass, who has three other children, Nicole, 15, Sophie, 11, and Callum, nine, said: ‘This has all happened in the past 12 weeks.
‘I feel like my feet haven’t touched the ground. Aaron knows something is happening but does not understand what is going on.
‘I have told him he has a poorly heart and he needs a new one. I have to stay strong for Aaron now. He is still the cheerful, happy little chappy … Continue Reading
*******************************************
Not related to above article:
Parent Pages lists lots of information, advice and resources for parents with babies, children and teenagers. We list online and local organisations, so whether you are looking for something national or something on your doorstep you will find it on the Parent Pages website. You will find information on local schools, tutors, nurseries, pre-schools, childcare, childminders, days out, as well as useful information on home-educating, pregnancy, childbirth, fostering and adoption, divorce and separation, holidays. We list many local and national charities offering advice and support for children or parents with disabilities, special needs, adhd, autism and other learning difficulties.
Parent Pages doesn’t just list paying advertisers, so you get a comprehensive guide to what’s available in your local area.
