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Michael Pringle

Complex brain surgery for tot who spent first nine days of life in Lanarkshire neonatal ICU

A Lanarkshire couple whose baby daughter needs complex brain surgery are taking part in a sponsored walk to raise money for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity.

Matthew Steele and Nicole Carr’s 14-month-old girl Thea will undergo life-saving surgery to separate fibres in the left side of her brain from the right in a bid to prevent her having seizures.

The tot spent nine days in the neonatal intensive care unit following a seizure just hours after she had been born at University Hospital Wishaw.

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