The family of a little boy at the centre of a transplant campaign have sent a message of hope to the parents of a County Durham toddler waiting for a new heart.
Beatrix Archbold underwent surgery to attach her to a Berlin Heart Ventricular Assist Device, which does the work of her own failing heart. She suffered heart failure last month, followed by a cardiac arrest, and is waiting at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle for a donor organ which will save her life.
Her parents Terry and Claire Archbold, from Burnopfield, made the agonising decision four years ago to donate the heart of their stillborn daughter Isabel for medical research. Now they are on the other side of the organ donation story as they wait for a heart donor for 16-month-old Beatrix.
