Her heart was the size of a thumbnail ; This week fashion guru George Davies launches his new brand GIVE - inspired by the moving story of how his little granddaughter Evie clung to life against all odds
Mail on Sunday › June 14, 2009
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Evie Miskin is the apple of her grandfather's eye. The mischievous threeyear-old giggles with delight as she walks hand-in- hand with him, picking buttercups in the sunshine. It's a scene which, for Evie's family, is one of many that marks an extraordinary journey of hopes and dreams for this very special little girl.
Evie was born prematurely and weighed just 3lbs. At seven days old, she was diagnosed with a rare heart defect - truncus arteriosus with interrupted aortic arch. It is a life-threatening condition which occurs when the embryonic heart fails to develop correctly and the two main arteries - the aorta and the pulmonary - are not properly formed.See the full content of this document
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Her heart was the size of a thumbnail ; This week fashion guru George Davies launches his new brand GIVE - inspired by the moving story of how his little granddaughter Evie clung to life against all odds
Her parents Alex and David were devastated when they were told she would have to undergo immediate open-heart surgery - and there was a risk their tiny girl, whose heart was the size of an adult thumbnail, might not survive the operation.
What they and the medical team at Birmingham Children's Hospital - led by one of the country's most eminent heart surgeons, Bill Brawn - soon recognised was that Evie was a fighter who had inherited the same feisty determination as her mum Alex and the grandfather with whom she would one day wal...See the full content of this document
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