‘My daughter’s heart stopped as I watched on helplessly’
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Megan Cornwell2023-02-23T14:00:00
When 14-month-old Liberty Feesey visited her GP with a persistent cough, her father, Paul, had no idea that only 24 hours later she would be in intensive care fighting for her life
Pandemonium greeted Paul Feesey as he stared through the small window onto the intensive care unit at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital where Liberty lay, tubes sprouting from her neck. Alarms sounded in the background as doctors doing chest compressions flanked his tiny daughter.
“I’ve got children. You don’t want to see this,” warned one of the medics as he dragged Paul and his wife, Becca, out of the room. “Her heart has stopped, but we’re trying to bring her back.”
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