Four months into her pregnancy Megan Curran, 23, from Wavertree, Merseyside, was told her son would have a rare heart condition, tetralogy of fallot, a congenital heart defect made up of four heart problems.
"It was a case of hit and miss treating him, they were trying anything because they didn't know how to deal with it.” After he was born Lucas was transferred to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital where he spent the next nine months in the ICU, hooked up to machines and being operated on, in attempts to save his life.
Lucas Quine was born in January 2021 at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and for the first nine months of his life was hooked up to machines in the ICU.
A mum told how doctors said her baby "wouldn't make it through the weekend" - but he pulled through after more than 40 operations.
Then on my first birthday and Mother’s Day as a mum they [doctors at Alder Hey] sat us down in a room and said he wouldn't make it through the weekend.
