A Glasgow mum-of-one says she wouldn't be alive without the life-saving heart surgery she had when she was a baby after doctors discovered her main arteries were joined and leaking blood into her lungs.
Debbie Kearney was born with holes in her heart, in 1976, but the congenital heart defect wasn't formally diagnosed until she became ill at just six-months-old and was close to having heart failure.
Born on the Isle of Man, she was rushed to a children's hospital in Liverpool where she was transfused with 14 pints of blood and underwent open heart surgery which saved her life.
