A Leeds mum who put her tiredness down to having kids found out she actually had a sinister condition.
Full-time mum-of-two Vicky Waite, 43, found herself feeling breathless and tired after climbing one flight of stairs or cleaning the house. She put it down to being a busy mum, but in fact she had an undiagnosed heart condition.
Vicky was diagnosed with Scimitar Syndrome, a rare congenital condition in which a vein from the right lung is abnormally connected to the heart causing oxygenated blood from the lung to return to the wrong side of the heart. This causes an overload and enlargement of the right side of the heart and in time could lead to heart failure.
