A GIRL born with a heart condition so rare only six other people in the world suffer from it is facing four life saving operations.
Shona Knight, six, is not letting her illness get the better of her, though - she will take part in a fund-raising walk around Locke Park on Sunday.
Shona, from Columbia Street in Worsbrough Common, was born with her heart connected to the rest of her body the wrong way round.
At times her heart is unable to establish a proper rhythm and doctors have told her mum Claire Wilson that as it becomes progressively worse, they will need to fit a pacemaker.
This will be followed by surgical procedures to insert and then remove a pulmonary band before a quadruple bypass to connect the right parts of the heart to the right blood vessels.
Claire , 25, said: “We noticed something was wrong when she was a week old, but it took another five weeks to diagnose her because her condition is so rare.
“The aorta and pulmonary artery are the wrong way round, as are the heart muscles. “She needs the pacemaker so she can make it to an old enough age to have the other operations. We have to wait until her condition worsens, though, before fitting the pacemaker."
