Wear Red for Finley 2025

Tamra Lewis is raising money for Children's Heart Surgery Fund
Show your support of congenital heart disease and Children's Heart Surgery Fund by wearing something RED in February 2025 and making a donation during Heart Month! We need you!

Story

Finley is this year's face of Wear Red Day 2025 for Children's Heart Surgery Fund.

Please Wear Red and donate to such an amazing cause.

Finley's Story:

Finley Kenneth Peirson was born in July 2022 and was rushed straight to Scarborough’s Special Care Baby Unit with a suspected infection. Over the weeks that followed, Finley deteriorated and was put into an incubator.

One of the doctors detected a heart murmur and this was confirmed by one of the cardiologists. Finley was immediately blue-lighted to the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit (LCHU).

Finley was diagnosed with Supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVD) and required open heart surgery as soon as possible – it would take place within days. Children’s Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF) supported Finley and us parents throughout the 11 days that Finley was at the LCHU, even providing us with accommodation within the hospital.

Finley then has a second round of open heart surgery when he was only 16 months old. This time we were at LGI for 3 weeks and just made it home in time for Christmas.

As first-time parents, we never imagined anything like this to happen when thinking about having our baby boy. We owe so many people a massive thanks, especially Carin Van Doorn and Giuseppe Palella and their team for accomplishing the operation and saving our baby boy’s life. Multiple members of staff from all the CHSF wards looked after Finley for both times he was in Leeds.

Wear Red Day is a very special day for us as a family, as it is to many other heart families. It gives us a special day to embrace what we’ve been through and to remind people they are not alone. Heart conditions are more common than most realise with 13 babies being diagnosed with a CHD every day – which means we should understand and learn about them. This day is about showing our heart warriors they should not hide their scars – they are part of who they are and they should celebrate that.

Please support us by raising as much money as possible so future poorly children can also thrive just like our little man Finley does now, today

Donation summary

Total
£121.00
+ £25.25 Gift Aid
Online
£121.00
Offline
£0.00

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