A hole Lot of heart

My champion daughter is a born fighter! By Nicole Bundy, 41, from Romford

- James Hanman/ Emmie Harrison

Looking at her now, there’s no doubt my daughter Amy’s one tough cookie.

At birth, doctors detected a heart murmur, but it wasn’t until she was 10 weeks old that the diagnosis was confirmed.

‘Amy has Tetralogy of Fallot,’ a consultant at the Harley Street heart clinic told us.

He explained she was missing her main artery, her lung arteries were small, and her oxygen levels were very low.

Me and my husband Steve, then 31, were told Amy needed surgery to insert an artificial valve and reconstruct the arteries from her heart to her lungs, to allow oxygenated blood to pump round her body properly.

But they’d have to wait until she was 6 months old – if she survived that long...