BRITAIN’S youngest liver transplant patient has got the all-clear — five years after her life-saving op aged 15 days.
Miley Hodgson’s parents said they have got “the best Christmas present we could ask for”.
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Newborn Miley was given just two weeks to live after she was diagnosed with acute liver failure.
The tiny tot, who had stopped breathing, then had a nine-hour liver swap op.
As she was so small, doctors could not fully close the wound so knitted it with a suction device.
Miley spent the next six months in hospital, battling infections, a collapsed lung and hypertension, and needed multiple ops.
Now five, she has made a full recovery — to the joy of mum Jemma, 41, and dad Sean, 43.
Jemma, a carer from Kidderminster, West Midlands, said: “It’s been such a tough time for Miley, she’s been through such a lot.
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“But she’s finally come through it all — and to look at her now, you wouldn’t know what she’s been through.
“She’s just learned to ride her bike, and we’re going to have such a great Christmas.”
They have written to the family of her donor, a young boy, to thank them.
Jenna, also mum to Noah, seven, said: “Without that wonderful gift, Miley wouldn’t be here.”
