Tiny tot beats odds every day

KEEP smiling . . . . Claire and Kaycee

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Battling Kaycee weighed only 1lb 4oz at birth
BRAVE little fighter Kaycee Brooks continues to defy the odds 19 months after the tot was born 25 weeks premature weighing less than a bag of sugar.

Her parents were told by doctors seven times that she might not survive.

The Lees wonder girl, who has spent only 60 days at home during her life, battles serious health issues after weighing an astonishing 1lb 4oz at birth.

Kaycee, who is oxygen-dependent and fed by tube, suffers from a hole in the heart as well as severe chronic lung disease and pulmonary hypertension.

Mum and dad Claire Holroyd and Michael Brooks have watched their daughter cling to life in several hospitals throughout the North-West — but are both praying she can have a life-changing operation in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, soon.

Support from Oldham and beyond to raise money for Kaycee’s “development care” has been overwhelming, according to her mother.

Claire (28) said: “We don’t expect anything from the community and we are amazed and overwhelmed by the support everyone has given us.”

Kaycee’s army of supporters has grown to more than 1,500 members on her special Facebook page. A benefit night is being held at St Edward’s Church Hall in Lees on Saturday, April 28.

Tickets are available from Springhead Football Club, in Ashfield Crescent, Springhead, or Legends, High Street, Lees.

Follow her story at www.kayceebrooks.blogspot.com.


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