Happy birthday to girl with mechanical heart
Daily Mirror|December 06, 2021
Little Grace's party as she waits for a donor
WARREN MANGER and MARTIN BAGOT
Happy birthday to girl with mechanical heart

A TODDLER with Britain's first mobile mechanical heart celebrated her second birthday in hospital.

Grace Westwood had a party in the playroom in the only home she has ever known, months after surviving a stroke.

The youngster made history in May when she became the first child in the UK fitted with a mobile Berlin heart machine - a plastic pump which sits outside the body.

Parents Becci and Darren, of Birmingham, told the Mirror how they cannot give her the one gift she needs - a donated heart.

This story is from the December 06, 2021 edition of Daily Mirror.

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