Oswestry family’s Christmas at home miracle
Saturday 24th December 2011, 10:59AM GMT.
Here’s one Shropshire family’s very own Christmas miracle – a chance to celebrate together at home after little Ryan Tookey and his mum had to fight for their lives.
Ryan, from Oswestry, had to battle for life after being born 10 weeks prematurely weighing just 2lb, 9oz.
Doctors performed an emergency Caesarian section on his mum Tina to save her baby’s life – but then had to put her into a medically induced coma after she went into respiratory failure during the operation.
But now Tina, husband Daniel, and seven-month-old Ryan are preparing for their first Christmas Day together as a family.
After suffering respiratory failure, Tina, 30, spent a week in the intensive care unit at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital before being transferred to a Leicester hospital and kept alive by an ECMO machine – which does the work of the heart and lungs.
Tina, of Maple Court, said: “I have since found out that my husband and our families were taken aside and told I was unlikely to survive. I was devastated but determined to get better so that I could see my son. Seeing pictures of my tiny son spurred me on.”
Just as he was about to be discharged from hospital, Ryan was diagnosed with necrotising enterocolitis – a condition which causes the bowel to die – and needed an operation.
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