A baby who was found to have a cluster of rare heart defects underwent life-saving surgery at a Glasgow hospital when he was just four-and-a-half months old. Relieved mum Laurie Anderson has now issued her heartfelt thanks to medics at the Royal Hospital for Children, who took excellent care of her son James Moir.
The youngster’s parents were ‘shocked’ to discover the youngster had a condition called Tetralogy of Fallot - which affects all four chambers of the heart - during their 20 week scan. Laurie and fiancé Daniel Moir, from Aberdeen, were warned their unborn child would need open heart surgery within the first year of his life, Glasgow Live reports.
After spending six days in hospital last July, the youngster was allowed home and continues to thrive. Recalling his diagnosis, the 31-year-old mum said: “The sonographer said that there might be a small hole in James' heart but often they close before birth.
