SHARE YOUR STORY
Children’s Heart Surgery Fund exists to support local heart warriors and their families. There is no better way to explain our charity than using a powerful story – like yours.
Please share your experiences to help others realise they are not alone, and spread awareness of congenital heart disease and the pioneering work of the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit.
We promise to use your story to positively promote CHSF’s cause across the wider region.
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REAL STORIES
Be a hero for…BELLE!
written by heart mum, Natalie We were introduced to the amazing CHSF on 14th April 2022 in Leeds when our daughter, Isabelle, was 5 months old. We went for a routine hospital check-up in Hull on 12th April with a suspected heart murmur and it was then that we were...
Callie-Mae after BBC Saving Lives in Leeds
Heart warrior Callie-Mae recently featured on BBC documentary ‘Saving Lives In Leeds’. In the final episode of the series, we followed Callie’s story as her family prepared for her to have open heart surgery, performed by surgeon Osama Jaber at the Leeds Congenital...
Mabel
Mabel's Storywritten by mum JessMeredith and Mabel were born 2nd June, but Mabel’s CHD diagnosis wasn’t discovered until 24 hours after birth. She had severe aortic stenosis and coarctation of the aorta. Despite being Mabel's identical twin, her sister Meredith did...
Millie
Millie's story so farwritten by mum Emma At my 20 week scan we heard the dreaded news “I can see an issue with the heart”. At that moment our whole world came crashing down and my thoughts straight away were, “Will she be ok?”, “What will happen now?” and “Why...
Warrior Wednesday: Abel
"The support we received from CHSF as well as all the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit staff meant so much to us. We are truly grateful to this wonderful charity."written by mum Jessica Our son Abel was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot after our 20-week anomaly scan...
Wear red for REGGIE
"Without Children’s Heart Surgery Fund, Reggie wouldn't be here." Michelle, Reggie's mumWritten by Reggie's mum, Michelle Reggie was born on the 1st September 2016 with a palliative congenital heart disease called hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Although you might...