Little Girl Aged Almost Three Who Has Spent Life In Hospital Waiting For Heart Is Now Allowed Home

Story By: James KingSub-EditorMarija Stojkoska, Agency: Newsflash

A little girl who spent her whole life in hospital waiting for a new heart has finally been allowed home for the first time.

Elena, nearly three years old, was born in the German city of Dusseldorf on 27th April 2018 and was diagnosed with a serious heart problem.

By the time she was one year old, she underwent heart surgery five times, but doctors then gave her parents the news that they were not able to save her heart.

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They were told that the little girl’s only hope was a new heart, and that she needed to be moved to a specialist centre 568 kilometres away in the capital Berlin to stay alive.

She was then separated from her family and connected to a heart machine while she waited for a transplant.

Finally, three months ago, a donor heart was available and she was able to start a new life.

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Now, finally, this week her parents Nasreen, 31, and Omar, 41, have been able to take their little treasure home and allowed her into her very own bedroom.

Her mum said: “It’s so wonderful that Elena was able to come home. I was with her for two years in Berlin and Omar was with our daughter Sedra here in Dusseldorf. It was a very hard time for us, our life was full of worry and fear. I’m now the happiest person in the world.”

Sedra, 7, is also delighted to have her sister home, saying: “I have only ever seen Elena in hospital, and I am really pleased she is now here with me at home.”

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On their first day at home together, Elena played with her sister in her pink bedroom.

The only outward sign of what she has gone through is the number of medicines on her bedroom shelf to make sure her body does not reject the new heart.

The parents said that when they see the two children together, all the worry and stress was worth it.

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