'Coke Can Kid' born so early docs gave him 5% chance of survival looks unrecognisable
dailystar.co.ukpremature, has miraculously defied the odds and made an incredible transformation. Jonathon Heeley weighed a mere 374 grams when he made a shock debut at the Mater Mothers' Hospital in Brisbane, Australia in 1992.
He was famously named after the soft drink because he weighed around the same size as a 375ml can. But his mother Gail Heeley said it was "fat compared to him." READ MORE Two-week-old baby tumbles down escalator in Primark The little fighter endured a tough few days after his weight dropped to 338 grams which is around a 10th the size of a healthy infant.Gail says his hands were "the size of my fingernail" and he was too fragile to hold until he reached six weeks old.
His discharge papers stated "future unknown" and he was so tiny that his first bath was taken in a kidney dish. But now he is set to celebrate his 30th birthday and weighs a whopping 60 kilograms which is around 150 full cans of Coke.Jonathon's chances of survival were extremely slim and he remains Mater's smallest surviving premature baby to this day.He made leaps and bounds with his development and now owns a dance school in Hervey Bay, where he choreographs routines for his students."I had a 5 per cent chance of survival.
More than likely I probably shouldn't be here," Jonathon said."I take every day as a blessing. I'm very much living my life, doing what I want to do and making things happen for myself.
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