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Mum raising £12k to adapt house so poorly two-year-old who has never left hospital can finally come home

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August 15, 2022
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Mum raising £12k to adapt house so poorly two-year-old who has never left hospital can finally come home

Baby Nathan in hospital with mum Joy Browne.

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A mum is raising £12k to adapt house so poorly two-year-old who has never left hospital can finally come home.

Joy Browne, 43, gave birth to her 33-week-old premature son Jotham Nathan Browne in October 2019.

Nathan, as he is known by his family, has a highly complex cardiac history and the Brownes have been living in hospital housing accommodation since his birth.

The family-of-five from Farnworth, Bolton, are now desperate to get their baby home for the first time in 33 months before his third birthday this October.

But they need to raise £12,000 to make their new house accessible for Nathan’s medical needs.

Baby Nathan’s first day outside of the hospital garden, May 2021 at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital with Joy Browne.
Nathan at the ward playing at RMCH in october 2021.

Joy, also mother to eleven-year-old twins, said: “We haven’t been home in almost three years, and what we have is not even enough to look after us at the moment.

“I just want my baby back, Nathan has been on ventilation since the first day he came into the world.

“It’s been the most difficult time of our lives but there is hope – as long as we can raise the money to get him back to live in comfort.”

Nathan was born by emergency caesarean section, with four major heart problems, his bowel and liver outside his umbilical cord, and a skin condition called exomphalos.

He had a hole in the upper and lower heart chambers, pulmonary stenosis – constricting blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery – and double-outlet right ventricle, where two large blood vessels do not connect to the heart normally.

The mother-of-three originally from Bolton explained: “As soon as Nathan was born, we discovered he all these issues wrong with his heart and all his life he has had difficulty breathing so has been on a ventilator ever since.”

When Nathan was born, his family moved from their home in Farnworth into Royal Manchester children’s hospital accommodation, Ronald McDonald House, to be closer to him.

The poor boy has endured 11 operations over 33 months, including his most recent open heart surgery in November 2021.

Baby Nathan at 3 days old with mum Joy Browne.
Baby Nathan in St Mary’s Hospital NICU in Feb 2020 .

But since this critical operation at Great Ormond Street hospital, Joy says Nathan has now been taken off ventilation for three hours a day and is showing development for the first time in years.

Joy said: “They were able to fix his heart but he still needs care and support – the plan now is to see how best they can wean him off ventilation, and doctors are hoping to increase Nathan’s time breathing on his own more and more.

“The doctors he is making promising progress and that we will be able to take him back home soon.

“We have been offered another home in Atherton, as our home back in Farnworth is not fit for Nathan – it is damp, has leaking and mould.

“But this new house unfortunately still needs a lot of work to give Nathan a place that is both liveable and comfortable.”

Nathan’s father, Patrick Browne, 50, works as a housing and wellbeing assistant, but has been unable to work full time because he has been caring for his family.

Baby Nathan after open heart at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Baby Nathan and mum Joy Browne at housing accommodation August 2021.

Joy says that major work needs doing to the new house, including making the garden adaptable alongside new flooring, a new kitchen, and purchasing appliances for Nathan’s room like a bed and specialist equipment.

The dining room has already been converted into a downstairs room for Nathan – to fit all his medical apparatus.

Joy said: “I am just seeing what money I can raise for our family – I just really want to go home and see what Nathan and my twins need, we have been stuck in hospital for such a long time.

“We have managed this on our own, believing God every day for the better and NHS professionals have been doing their best for Nathan for 33 months.

“But once we can fix the house, it will give us a chance at normal again.”

You can support the family here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pls-help-us-go-home-after-33-months-in-hospital

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