{"id":943342,"date":"2026-05-07T07:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943342\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:59:14","slug":"cleator-moor-toddler-poppy-added-to-heart-transplant-waiting-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943342\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleator Moor toddler Poppy added to heart transplant waiting list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The parents of a 21-month-old girl with a serious heart condition are urging other families to consider organ donations.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poppy was diagnosed before her birth with a rare congenital heart defect and in December had major heart surgery at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her condition worsened and she underwent several more surgeries before doctors discovered her tricuspid valve was damaged, meaning her only option was a heart transplant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her parents Becca and Kevin, from Cleator Moor in Cumbria, have asked people to talk to their families about organ donation, as it could give a child a &#8220;chance of life&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parents of a 21-month-old girl with a serious heart condition are urging other families to consider organ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-943342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116532239939745537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}