A young girl born with Down's syndrome and a heart condition is defying all odds nine years after undergoing surgery.
Nine-year-old Lucie, from Waringstown in Co Down, travelled to London six months after she was born in 2013 to undergo heart surgery. Just days after she was born, she was diagnosed with an atrioventricular septal defect, meaning there was a hole between the chambers of the left and right sides of her heart.
Now on a two year review with her cardiac need, Lucie's mum, Zoe McCullough, described the youngster as being "like Teflon." She began walking at 18 months old, shouldn't need any further surgery, and the leakage between the the chambers in her heart is set to reduce as she gets older.
