A mum has died following a disturbance in the street in Edinburgh on Thursday night.
06.05.2023 - 14:01 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The family of a young Scots girl were told she will eventually need a transplant after the five-year-old was diagnosed with a rare kidney condition that will cause the organs to fail.
Mum Emily Patterson, from Stranraer, travels over two hours to get to the Glasgow Children's Hospital so daughter Victoria can receive care for her rare ailment.
The family make the trip almost every month after Victoria was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome, which causes her to pass too much protein in her urine. The brave schoolgirl also has pulmonary stenosis, which affects her heart.
The family knew something was wrong with their daughter shortly after she was born and it has been a long journey to her diagnosis, Glasgow Live reports.
Mum-of-three Emile said: "Victoria was born in December 2017 and when she was three weeks old she was taken to Dumfries hospital because she was really unwell.
"They did some tests and they found out that she had a heart murmur. Originally they thought it was caused by a hole in the heart which would close itself, however, during that same visit they found blood in her urine.
"She was in and out of hospital quite often with illnesses. They kept monitoring this murmur that she had and later found that she had a heart condition which was causing the murmur.
"Victoria has pulmonary stenosis, which means the valves in her heart are thin so they struggle to pump the blood away. When the time comes she'll need surgery to repair that.
"Her paediatrician was still finding blood in her urine during every single test. In September 2019, they decided to investigate why - and the next day I got a phone call saying that we needed to be in hospital ASAP because if it is what they think it is Victoria need treatment straight
A mum has died following a disturbance in the street in Edinburgh on Thursday night.
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