Kristian
June 23, 2009
Kristian’s story written by his mother, Norma

Gary and Kay Leech, describe their daughter Harriet’s time in Paediatric Critical Care
Daniyal has just had his first birthday. Yet he has never seen his home, or slept in his own bed, because he has spent all of the first year of his life in hospital.
Our son, Liam Rhys, was born on 17th January 2008 in Preston and after just 50 minutes he stopped breathing. He was ventilated and diagnosed with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (a hole in the diaphragm). He was transferred to Pendlebury Children’s Hospital, Intensive Care Unit in Manchester. The staff cared for him until he was [...]