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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Emmie Norton & Nia Dalton

'I'm planning my son's funeral while he's still alive – but we've got one last hope'

A mum who feels like she's "going to lose her whole world" is desperately waiting for an organ donor to save her baby boy's life. Jade Jones has been planning her son's funeral while she hopelessly holds out for a heart transplant to keep one-year-old little Louis alive.

It comes as the young boy has spent almost his entire life in hospital, having fallen ill when he was just eight-weeks-old, after a horrifying battle with enterovirus. Now, the 28-year-old mum can do nothing but wait and "take every day as it comes", cherishing each moment and memory with her son.

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