Malcolm suffered a heart attack - just four weeks after his daughter came home from hospital
It was a normal Saturday afternoon when the peace of Emma Hall’s home was broken by a blood-curdling shriek. She had been watching TV with her husband Malcolm when she noticed him slumped over on the sofa. Just an hour later, he was dead.
READ MORE: "A parent's worst nightmare": Mum found out her 14-year-old daughter had died when she drove past police scene Scans revealed the left-side of his heart was extremely enlarged. Following tests, he was later diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a type of heart muscle disease which causes the heart chambers to grow larger. He remained stable on medication until he reached the age of 12, when he began feeling lethargic and breathless.
Elizabeth, now aged nine, was given an artificial heart – a device that maintains blood circulation in the human body for a certain period of time – while she waited for a donor. In January 2019, when the tot was just six-years-old, doctors found a matching heart and the transplant went ahead. The operation was successful and the family were set for their happily-ever-after.
“We were trying to split time between the children. While one parent was up there, one parent was down here trying to keep life as normal as possible for the one at home.
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