Adorable baby wakes from a coma and smiles at his dad
By Emily Lefroy| 3 months ago
A baby who woke from a coma with a smile on his face now has another challenge: to get to Boston for life-saving heart surgery.
The family of the boy who live in Bristol, are fundraising to pay for surgery which is not available in the UK and isn't funded by the health system, the NHS.
Michael Labuschagne, now 10 months old, was just 14 weeks old when he suffered heart failure, his mother Emma, 27, wrote on a fundraising page for the family.
The tiny tot woke up from his five-day-coma smiling at his dad. (GoFundMe)
She continues "we watched our baby breathless, gasping for air while his heart stopped and paramedics worked to save his life. In that moment I did not think Michael would make it through"
Michael made it through the cardiac arrest, which is something less than six percent of patients survive out of hospital, according to the Journal of the American Heart Association.
He spent five days in an induced coma before waking up, and immediately grinned at the sight of his dad Stuart, 28.
Michael Labuschagne suffered heart failure at 14 weeks old. (GoFundMe)
He was diagnosed with a cardiac fibroma, which is a rare tumour of the heart, attached to the septum within the left chamber of Michael's heart. It's an incredibly rare tumour that only a handful of people have been diagnosed with in the UK.
Michael has an internal pacemaker and defibrillator, but Emma says this has caused physical development delay and is currently at max threshold, meaning it's not working as effectively as it should.
"The cardiac surgeons at Boston are *Fact* the best cardiac surgeons in the world and they have done this operation several times" Emma wrote.
She continued "They are confident that they can drastically improve, or even cure, his condition by removing the tumour".
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