Lowick girl, 10, who had emergency liver transplant fundraises for the Sick Children’s Trust

A 10-year-old who needed to have an emergency liver transplant is now serving to different sick youngsters in hospital.

Honey Grey, from Lowick in Northumberland, was simply eight when she turned jaundiced and needed to be taken to the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington.

After exams, she was transferred to Leeds Kids’s Hospital to see a liver specialist. Honey’s situation went quickly downhill over the following week.

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Docs suspected she might have Wilson’s Illness, which causes extra copper to be saved within the physique and results in physique poisoning.

Honey was placed on medicine to fight the consequences, however her liver was too broken for this to work and she or he was placed on the tremendous pressing transplant record for a brand new liver.

Fortunately, just some days later she underwent a profitable transplant operation and has now totally recovered.

Her mother and father Deborah and Duncan, had been in a position to keep by her aspect due to assist from The Sick Kids’s Belief’s ‘Residence from Residence’ – Eckersley Home.

Deborah mentioned: “For lots of the time Honey was in hospital I used to be in a position to keep by her bedside however Eckersley Home made certain my associate Duncan is also with us.

“When Honey was moved to the paediatric intensive care unit after her operation I might not sleep on the ward, however I used to be in a position to keep on the ‘Residence from Residence’ too and by no means be distant from her.

“It took an amazing weight off us. We didn’t must attempt to discover someplace to remain each evening or fear concerning the monetary impression it will have induced us. Eckersley Home is situated proper exterior the hospital, it could not have been any extra useful.”

To say thanks to the charity, Honey has accomplished a fundraising problem all through August to assist The Sick Kids’s Belief.

Alongside her mum, Honey walked a complete of 155 miles all through August – the equal distance from their dwelling in Lowick to Leeds Kids’s Hospital the place Honey obtained emergency care – to boost £1,026 for the charity.

Deborah continued: “We raised cash for the hospital charity, Leeds Cares, final yr to thank them for the superb care Honey obtained and this yr we needed to offer one thing again to The Sick Kids’s Belief, as a result of they helped our household after we wanted it most.”

Honey herself added: “I need to make individuals conscious of the nice work The Sick Kids’s Belief does to assist households and lift cash for them to say thanks for giving my mum and pop a spot to remain near me.”

The Sick Kids’s Belief offers households with a significantly sick youngster in hospital a spot to remain. 4 of the charity’s ten ‘Houses from Residence’ assist households with a baby on the organ transplant record by giving them a spot to remain, near their liked one in hospital.

Eckersley Home Supervisor, Jane McHale, mentioned: “Honey and Deborah are absolute tremendous stars for taking up this problem and I’d prefer to say an enormous thanks to them for supporting us.

“Whereas we don’t cost households to remain in our ‘Houses from Residence’ it does price The Sick Kids’s Belief £30 to assist a household for one evening. £30 offers them a cushty place to remain and a pleasant ear to hear whereas their youngster is significantly sick in hospital.”

Donations to Honey’s marketing campaign can nonetheless be made at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/deborah-ewing.

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