My Story

I'm running for the Children's Heart Surgery Fund because they were part of saving my son's life. When Bram was born, we were urgently sent from Grimsby hospital to Leeds hospital where after 24 hours the hospital said they thought they could fix him. Bram needed open heart surgery at 10 weeks old as without that surgery he wouldn’t live. Those 10 weeks waiting for this appointment to come through were very long. Bram’s feeds took at hour for him to drink very little and had to be repeated every 2 hours. Following a massive 8-hour operation at 10 weeks old Carin Van Doorn fixed our son and changed our lives forever. He went from a grey coloured very poorly baby to a pink glowing baby who could thrive and grow. He is now 12 years old and a determined, resilient, confident young man. I want to raise this money to say a very small thank you from us to them.