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A mother has recalled the fear she felt when her son was rushed into surgery at just 10 days old – with a tiny heart the size of a walnut.
Eddison Watts, from Norwich, was diagnosed with a heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot during his mother’s pregnancy, where blood would not flow around his body properly.
It is one of the most common heart defects affecting approximately one in every 3,600 births in the UK, accord
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