A baby girl who was not expected to live long after birth is defying the odds and proving doctors who made the prognosis wrong, While in the womb, the, now nine-month-old was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease and has to travel with her parents to hospital multiple times a week for treatment.
Little Aaliyah is a cherished daughter to parents Siobhan Sharrock, 26, and dad, Christopher Evans, 34, from Plymouth and she keeps smiling despite everything. She has treatment in Bristol and the family say the Lighthouse Ward in Bristol Royal Family saved Aaliyah's life.
Siobhan's sister, Nadine Davies, is now taking on the challenge of running the Plymouth Half Marathon to raise money for Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal which supports the Bristol hospital, Plymouth Live reports.