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Sarah and Thomas Pollock鈥檚 son Finlay was diagnosed with a serious heart condition when he was eighteen months old. The family from Northern Ireland spent more than 300 days in hospital at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and then travelled the long distance to the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.

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