A 16-month-old toddler is desperately waiting for a transplant after fighting back from a cardiac arrest and open heart surgery.
Terry Archbold and his wife Cheryl initially thought their daughter Beatrix may have contracted covid-19 when she lost her appetite and became lethargic. The family, from Burnopfield, County Durham, had just returned from a trip to Disney World in Florida and Cheryl, 40, and her daughter Eliza, 11, had tested positive for the virus.
When a small rash appeared on the back of Beatrix's neck at the beginning of May, she was rushed in an ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead to be checked out. A doctor detected a heart murmur and chest x-rays revealed that one side of her heart was enlarged and not functioning properly.
