Parents fight to save Joy's life
CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO HELP SICK TWO-YEAR-OLD
Joy Lawlor with her parents Gemma and Mark.
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Tuesday October 27 2009
THE parents of a seriously ill two-year-old girl from Carlow have launched a nationwide campaign to save their daughter who is waiting for open heart surgery at Crumlin Hospital. Joy Lawlor, who has a hole in her heart and a narrowing heart valve, is on a waiting list at Crumlin behind more than 150 other children.
Her parents Gemma Lawlor and Mark Doyle from the Millstream, Blackbog Road, have written to the Minister for Health pleading for a bed for the vital surgery as they fear their daughter Joy might die as she has become more ill in recent days.
Gemma, a guidance counsellor at Carlow Vocational School, and her husband Mark adopted Joy from Vietnam in April 2008. She is their only child and they said she was 'hard won' after a typically protracted adoption process.
- Lynda CONNOLLY
