Regional Winners of Merseyside
Liverpool Women's Hospital.
Jon Prayle’s mother, Wendy, wrote: “A nurse is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart, because they have in their care a wondrous little being belonging to you.” When Jon was born 15 weeks premature on 24 October 2000, weighing just 1lb 10oz, and with extremely under-developed lungs, the initial prognoses for his survival was only 50/50.
Jon spent the first six months of his life in intensive care before being moved to the High Dependency Room, then to the Nursery, and finally home – 10 months after his birth. Jon is now 4 years old. He still has chronic lung disease but is otherwise perfectly healthy, and is no longer on oxygen. “It was not just the facilities at the Women’s Hospital that saved my son’s life,” says Wendy, “It was the expertise, extreme dedication, love and support of the staff.”
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