by CHSF | May 23, 2022 | EVENTS, LATEST NEWS, REAL STORIES
SCAR SELFIE Every scar tells a story. Thank you for celebrating your scars with us and showing the world your Scar Selfie! Every year on #NationalSelfieDay (21 June) we ask you to share a snap of your scar using the hashtag #ScarSelfie. Why? To raise awareness...
by CHSF | May 11, 2022 | LATEST NEWS, REAL STORIES
Written by heart mum, Ashleigh Short “When I was pregnant we found out that our precious girl would be born with coarctation of the aorta and that she would have to go through open heart surgery at only a few days old. This was the hardest thing we’ve ever...
by CHSF | May 6, 2022 | COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING, LATEST NEWS, REAL STORIES
written by Kathryn’s daughter Deborah Children’s Heart Surgery Fund is close to our hearts as Millie (my daughter, Kathryn’s grandaughter) was born with Tetralogy of fallot in September 2005. It was then we were thrown into a whole new world...
by CHSF | Apr 1, 2022 | LATEST NEWS, REAL STORIES
Sawda is six years old and lives in Bradford. She was born with a very complicated heart condition and has already had several open heart surgeries to save her life. Mum Attika tells us about Sawda’s journey with CHD so far and how she has been helped by CHSF...
by CHSF | Mar 30, 2022 | LATEST NEWS, REAL STORIES
Heart warrior Isabel is 8 and lives in Worksop. She had open heart surgery at Leeds when she was 3 months old. Mum Natalie tells us about Isabel’s CHD journey, her daughter’s diagnosis of Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder and the challenges of...
by CHSF | Mar 15, 2022 | LATEST NEWS, REAL STORIES
The McCombe family were just settling in at home as a new family of four when the midwife noticed something wasn’t quite right with baby Freya. Freya’s mum, Holly, tells us about their journey with congenital heart disease so far and how Freya and her...
