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Youngster's battle for life a distant memory

Oct 30 2011 by Kim Carmichael, Sunday Sun

Jorge Edgar

SMILING happily, little Jorge Edgar is enjoying life to the full.

And as the cheeky youngster prepares to celebrate his first birthday, his fierce battle for survival at just four days old is now a distant memory.

A life-threatening condition meant Jorge spent his first few weeks on a life support machine fighting to stay alive.

The youngster was diagnosed with a blood clot after his birth at West Cumberland Hospital and was rushed to Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital where he underwent lung surgery and spent 10 days on a life support machine.

He was then transferred to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI), in Newcastle.

But little Jorge amazed medics with his fighting spirit and was discharged to return home with parents Jason and Claire Edgar after just five weeks.

“When Jorge first arrived, he was barely alive,” said Jason, 38, of Ennerdale Cleator, Cumbria.

“They had to do a lot of work in a short space of time. It was going to go either way.

“I think you just deal with it because you have to but it was awful. We wouldn’t want to go through it again.

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