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The Belfast Telegraph reports that a boy who was one of the youngest children ever to undergo open heart surgery
in Northern Ireland has come face to face with his rock heroes.
Most youngsters dream of meeting their childhood heroes and for the Co Antrim
boy this dream came true when he met rock ’n’ roll legends Def Leppard.
Coleraine schoolboy JD Dinsmore met the Sheffield rockers in June and, says
mum Gillian Shiels, the normally outgoing 11-year-old was left speechless.
“He would have been a bit shy about it,” she explained, “but it was his dream
come true. All he wants to be is a rock star. He loves his guitar and his
rock and roll music. And he has always been into Def Leppard. There is no
Daniel |O’Donnell in this house!”
Gillian said the once in a lifetime meeting came about after JD’s uncle, David
Shiels, contacted the Make-a-Wish Foundation to see if it could help.
JD has complex congenital heart disease. When he was born he had three major
heart defects — a blocked valve, a hole in the heart and an abnormal
connection of the aorta to the right ventricle. He was also born with
haemophilia.
Then when he was almost two he underwent an operation for a cardiac
catherisation. However, during the operation he contracted septicemia which
led to an infection in his heart.
Read the full story here.
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