If it wasn’t for the heart unit I might have lost Yvie

Friday 25th March 2011, 2:29PM GMT.

Laura Margetts, pictured with Yvie, 3, is urging islanders to sign the Have a Heart petition. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1113996)

THE mother of a disabled child who had two open-heart operations as a baby is fighting to save Southampton General Hospital children’s cardiac unit.

Laura Margetts, 28, is urging islanders to sign a local petition in support of the Southern Daily Echo’s Have a Heart Campaign.

Mrs Margetts’ daughter, Yvie, who is now three, was born with a heart defect. She also suffers from neurological problems and has now developed sclerosis, a type of curvature of the spine.

When Yvie was aged just 11 months, she had her first heart operation at the Southampton unit.

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Natasha

March 25, 2011 at 3:02 pm

My baby had open heart surgery there when she was 4 months old last year. She is alive today only because of all those wonderful people working at this unit. I can never thank them enough.

This ward shoul not close. Please do sign this petition.

I have signed the petition on the internet and have asked all my friends/relatives and colleagues to sign this.
The website is http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wchcsaveoceanward/

Please do sign this and forward to everryone

Many thanks

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Rex

March 25, 2011 at 9:06 pm

What the article fails to highlight is the unit in Southampton was ranked second highest performing unit in England. Not only will this have a devastating affect on us in terms of our ability to have Guernsey children to get to specialist heart surgery but also if the unit closes we are likely to receive a lower standard of care than we current experience.

Please sign the petition and get your friends to sign the petition which can be downloaded from the Southampton Echo website.

Thanks

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