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Distressing: 3 week old needs new heart

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Cardiffclare88 · 18/01/2019 18:18

Poor boy and his poor family Sad
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-46903475

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Toddlerteaplease · 18/01/2019 18:46

There's been a massive Facebook campaign over the last couple of weeks. Sadly I think his chances are extremely slim.

Toddlerteaplease · 18/01/2019 18:47

His poor parents. Their other son Was absolutely beautiful.

SockQueen · 18/01/2019 19:40

I can't imagine what they're going through, it's utterly tragic, but sadly I think the chances of finding a suitable donor on such a short timescale are very slim - it would need to come from another child of a similar size, and for heart transplants the donor has to die in quite a specific way (be declared brainstem dead) so that the heart is still beating. I just don't think there can be that many tiny babies dying like that every day, on the donor register or not.

costacoffeecup · 18/01/2019 19:44

Life just isn't fair.

Ohgoon · 18/01/2019 19:52

That poor poor family. The devastation they've gone through

PyongyangKipperbang · 18/01/2019 19:54

And people insist that there is a god :(

My heart goes out to that poor family

Cardiffclare88 · 18/01/2019 21:09

I can’t imagine what they are going through. You are right @SockQueen, it seems unlikely that they will be able to find a match for all of the reasons you list. Absolutely devastating.

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Toddlerteaplease · 19/01/2019 22:58

The family have posted on Facebook that he's died this evening. So very tragic. Such a beautiful boy without his tubes.

Cardiffclare88 · 19/01/2019 23:44

Tragic. Flowers

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