A woman who spent most of her childhood in hospital and had open heart surgery at just nine-years-old is using her own trauma to help other youngsters understand life on a ward.
Hannah Phillips, 24, weighed less than a bag of sugar and was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease when she was born. The trainee teacher, from Lewisham, south east London, had a total of 10 surgeries at Evelina Children's Hospital and had a pacemaker fitted to her heart when she was 15.
Hannah was officially diagnosed with Ebsteins Anomaly at around six-months-old - a condition affecting how the tricuspid valve pumps blood around her body.
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