Mum facing homelessness gives her baby gift of life for second time with liver donation

This stunning first snap of smiling dad and mom with their beautiful youngsters is a second to treasure for a household who’ve been by way of hell.

It’s an image brave mum Autumn Cayzer and companion Ryan Gowran feared would by no means be taken.

It reveals courageous little Edan, aged two, cradling his tiny sister Aria, who wouldn’t be alive however for her unbelievable mum.

Autumn, 21, didn’t should assume twice about donating a slice of her liver to avoid wasting her desperately sick child after Ryan’s was too massive for Aria.

But it surely meant Autumn needed to conquer a lifelong dread of waking up in the course of surgical procedure.

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The little fighter isn’t out of the woods but and spent her first birthday, on Wednesday, in hospital and might have a bowel transplant in some unspecified time in the future.

Ryan, 29, mentioned: “She’s our courageous little woman who wouldn’t be right here now however for her mum giving her the present of life.”

Aria was born 4 weeks early and jaundiced, so was given gentle remedy.

However when she bought no higher medical doctors discovered she had biliary atresia – ­a situation that stops bile, which helps the liver breakdown fat, passing by way of the organ.

Atresia could cause the liver to develop into scarred, broken and to fail. At simply 19 days previous, Aria was flown from Glasgow to Leeds for ­surgical procedure often called a Kasai.

Typically it will forestall the necessity for a liver transplant however at eight months Aria turned very sick once more.

Ryan, who was made redundant as a chef simply earlier than the pandemic, flew together with her to a Leeds hospital.

The liver crew advised him Aria had only a few weeks to stay with no transplant and he volunteered to be her donor.

He mentioned: “They rushed by way of assessments. I advised Autumn they’d gone effectively and I’d be Aria’s donor.

“Then they got here again and I used to be advised my liver was too massive for Aria and the slice they wanted wouldn’t match inside. So I known as Autumn. She was in shock.”

Autumn was at residence in Clydebank, Glasgow, with Edan when she bought the decision. She left her son together with her dad and mom and took the subsequent prepare to Leeds.

On the day of surgical procedure, Ryan stayed with Autumn at St James’s College Hospital in Leeds till 8am then raced two miles throughout town to Leeds Kids’s Hospital to be with Aria.

At 11am, after information that Autumn’s liver could be appropriate, Ryan gave Aria a hug earlier than the surgical procedure.

Autumn mentioned: “I’ve ­all the time had this concern of getting surgical procedure and ­waking and no person ­realising.

“The nurses needed to play me Justin Bieber to calm me down as they put me to sleep. Once I awakened I wasn’t positive the operation was over.

“It was the longest day. Aria was nonetheless within the working theatre and I used to be getting common updates from Ryan.”

Aria got here out of surgical procedure at 8pm but it surely was 4 days earlier than Autumn was discharged and may very well be ­reunited together with her daughter.

After 15 days Aria lastly woke from the operation and on December 14 she was effectively sufficient to be taken again to Glasgow Kids’s Hospital.

However every week later she needed to be flown again to Leeds to insert a stent, a brief wire-mesh tube, after scans confirmed the vein supplying her liver had began to shut.

The couple then confronted a heartbreaking choice of whether or not or to not return residence to Edan for Christmas, leaving Aria within the care of medics in Leeds.

Autumn mentioned: “The toughest wrench was being separated from Aria at Christmas.

“However we would have liked to be with our little boy who would have missed us extra as he’s older and extra conscious. However we all know that Aria was spoiled rotten by the nurses in Leeds.”

It was a tricky finish to an awfully troublesome yr for the household, who additionally confronted homelessness after being pressured from their housing affiliation flat by delinquent neighbours.

Ryan, who had been in his chef’s job for 2 years, mentioned: “This final yr has been an enormous kick within the tooth. I really feel like I’ve submit traumatic stress. A lot has gone mistaken.

“All this was occurring at a time we had been having to take care of Aria being unwell. It looks like a nasty hangover.

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“We lastly bought into our new council flat in the course of November. However we’ve spent many of the yr in hospital lodging.”

Aria got here residence within the New 12 months however was again in hospital this week and had one other stent fitted.

She was born with a brief bowel and is ready for an operation to restore it because it turns into blocked.

She can not eat with no drip or tube. If that surgical procedure fails she might have a bowel transplant.

Ryan mentioned: “Hats off to the fantastic medical doctors in Leeds and Glasgow, who’ve cared for her. We additionally need to thank the Kids’s Liver Illness Basis for a lot help and data.

“The Sick Kids’s Belief, Leeds Kids’s Hospital and Ronald McDonald Home in Glasgow gave us lodging.

“We had a whole lot of kilos in bills travelling to and from Leeds. We’d prefer to thank REACT charity in Leeds and the Emergency Household Fund.”

Paediatric liver surgeon Naved Alizai at Leeds Kids’s Hospital, mentioned: “She is likely one of the most complex instances I’ve had in 30 years. Hopefully we’ll efficiently deal with her bowel.

“All of us hope it received’t be lengthy earlier than Aria can go residence to her household.”