Grateful parents of a one-year-old who overcame a rare life-threatening form of liver disease returned to the children’s A&E department at St Helier to donate an iPad to the unit.
Tiffany Lothian, who turned one on April 9, was a regular patient in the unit as a result of biliary atresia – a condition which only affects babies, that damages bile ducts and causes liver scarring.
January 21: Carshalton mum raising money to replace stolen iPad
During one of her daughter’s emergency visits to the hospital, Dee Lothian was told that an iPad owned by the department – used to distract young patients as they underwent procedures – had been stolen.
Mrs Lothian and her husband Wayne, of Stavordale Road, Carshalton, instantly set out to raise funds to buy the department a replacement, which they had engraved with their daughters name and hand-delivered to the unit.
Mrs Lothian said: “Tiffany used to have to come to A&E a lot, and we saw first-hand how hard all of the staff work.
"Our family have had some very difficult and heavy moments in this department, and without the support of the staff and the work that they do, we wouldn’t be here today.
"To know that the nurses had taken the time to secure funding for this iPad and it had been stolen was just terrible. "We knew that we wanted to get them a new one straight away.”
Her daughter has undergone a liver transplant thanks to a living donation from her cousin, clearing her biliary atresia, since her frequent visits to A&E.
Senior sister Inky Stenning said: “Tiffany is a brave and resilient girl, and we were all so delighted to see her again, and see that that she’s doing really well after her transplant.”
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