A baby boy had to have open-heart surgery at just three weeks old after he was born with Tetralogy of Fallot.
Tommy Armitage was born in December 2019 in Oldham Hospital before being taken to St Marys in Manchester and then rushed to Alder Hey where he underwent open-heart surgery to insert a stent [tiny mental mesh that works to keep an artery from closing or narrowing] in the baby's heart. Just two months later, Tommy had to go back under the knife for a more extensive surgery where they discovered that part of his heart was "knackered".
Tommy's mum, Beckie, has now spoken about what it was like when he was firstborn. The student nurse told the ECHO : "He was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot [a congenital defect that affects the blood flow through the heart] when I was 18 weeks pregnant. We were told he would have an operation between six and nine months and that would be it.
