Young At Heart Skydiving 25th June

Im taking part in a skydive to support a fantastic charity that supports families with children that have CHD.

My daughter Miela-Rose was born in December 2019 we were having her baby checks done when the nurses werent happy with her oxygen levels, she was then taken from us and put into neonatal. We then had to wait to be transferred to another hospital, luckily we were able to get a bed in BCH. Thats when she was diagnosed with a Rare heart condition called TAPVD (total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage). Then at just 2 weeks old she had her first open heart surgery and heart bypass surgery to try to repair her heart. During her recovery her lungs collapsed. The surgery had slightly worked but the surgeon wanted to better the procedure. He attempted to try through a catheter which failed due to scar tissue from the open heart surgery. Which then meant another open heart surgery was needed.

She then developed Sepsis, Pneumonia and Covid all at the same time which resulted in her being intubated as she was unable to breathe for herself. During this her lungs collapsed another 3 times.

During this time of my daughter being unwell we had lots of support from charities within the hospital. We came across a charity called 'young at heart' the things this charity do to help and support families going through similar if not more serious cases than ours is phenomenal. They help to organise family trips out, events for families to get together with other CHD children and lots more. In doing this skydive i would like to help to raise as much money as possible to help this charity to get more resources and to be able to help families further.