After 500 days waiting...a good heart for Evie

Family's joy as girl. 5, gets transplant

- JEREMY ARMSTRONG

A LITTLE girl who spent over 500 days on a transplant waiting list has received the gift of a new heart.

Evie Green's parents went through a whirlwind of emotions during the five year-old's overnight operation.

The Mirror has followed Evie's fight for life since she fell ill and spent a year in Newcastle's Freeman Hospital.

Parents Chloe, 29, and David, 35, had to make 100-mile round trips to and from their home in Middlesbrough while looking after her big brother Theo, six.

Finally, the news they had been longing for came with a donor organ being found.

Chloe said: "It was a mismatch in terms of blood type but perfect in terms of antibodies.