1yr-old tot becomes world's 'youngest open heart surgery patient'

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Last Updated : May 10 2015 | 2:42 PM IST

A European baby girl has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest ever open heart surgery patient.

Chanel Murrish underwent the major heart surgery at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital just 1 minute after being born in April 2014 weighing 7lb as the chances of her survival were so low that her parents Fay and Micheal were twice offered a termination, the Mirror reported.

The 25-year-old mother of the record-making-kid said that her baby proved every possibility wrong as initially doctors told her and her husband that their baby has low oxygen levels and probably wouldn't have much energy but she's such so determined and now she sits up and starts to dance on music.

Fay added that her daughter Chanel is like an inspiration as she fought so strongly and now it feels so amazing that she is growing like a normal child although she's not able to crawl yet as she feels painful getting on her stomach, but she's a strong willed little girl with a real desire to live.

Since birth the baby, who is a 1-year-old kid now, has undergone 10 operations, including two more open heart surgeries, to repair a condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which means just the right side of her heart beats and she still requires further surgery to bypass the left side of her heart using arteries from her neck and legs when she will turn 3.

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First Published: May 10 2015 | 2:26 PM IST

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