Pick Me Up!

SCREEN SAVER

Her little thumbs tapping away on the screen, my daughter Aria was all smiles. ‘Gotcha!’ she squealed, as the tinny music blared out of my phone, signalling she’d won another game.

‘Right you,’ I smiled, taking my phone back. ‘It’s about time we get you ready for school.’

At just three years old, Aria was incredibly intelligent, always playing games and soaking up any information she could from the telly.

When she was born in July 2016, she’d sadly inherited a heart condition from me–called coarctation of the aorta.

She’d been born struggling to breathe, and went on to have two surgeries on her heart at

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