The mum of a one-year-old girl who was fitted with a pacemaker at just four-days-old says she is in desperate need of a heart transplant.
Little Minnie Stanley is currently in a hospital miles away from her home in Little Hulton hooked up to a mechanical heart that is keeping her live.
Minnie was born with a congenital complete heart block which meant she had to have an operation to fit a pace maker into her heart soon after she was born.
Despite this, she managed to go home and was ‘coping well’ as a ‘normal child with a pacemaker’. However, her mother, Natasha Stanley, says at the beginning of this year she started to notice some 'issues' with Minnie's appetite and breathing until one morning she woke up and found that Minnie’s whole body had swollen.
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