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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Ross Kainuk

Girl with hole in heart who couldn't play football inspired by Lionesses success

England’s Lionesses have scored again – this time for a budding footy star who feared mini-stroke symptoms from a hole in her heart would end her career.

Just a year ago Cerys Edgson, 13, was having suicidal thoughts after the NHS refused her surgery to fix her condition.

She had to give up playing as even getting to school was sometimes impossible through headaches, changes in her vision, loss of speech and motor weakness on her left side.

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