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Rosanna is organising a sponsored swim

Rosanna is organising  her latest fundraising challenge,
a sponsored swim on 1 August to raise money for national charity Heart Research UK
and help other heart patients like herself.



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You can get yourself involed and come and join in. Numbers are limited to 150 so please let us know and we will keep you all up to date.

 

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Rosanna Swims for British Heart Foundation

Rosanna will swim in aid of british heart foundation at Farnham

Mind-goggling ... Rosanna Ogden loves to swim underwater
  
 

 

BRAVE toddler Rosanna Ogden overcame a life-threatening heart tumour — by learning to swim.

Rosanna was just six weeks old when she had open heart surgery.

Doctors suggested swimming could help her recover — and she has not looked back.

She could swim in a pool before she could walk.

Next month the two-year-old will be the youngest person to take part in a charity swim for the British Heart Foundation.

"Little Mermaid" Rosanna was diagnosed with rhabdomyoma — a benign heart tumour so rare there have only been three similar cases in the UK in the last decade. Parents Mick and Sanam were told she might not survive the eight-hour operation.

Mum Sanam, 26, said: "It was terrifying. Without the surgery she couldn't have lived.

"One of us was allowed in theatre to kiss her. Mick was too upset, so I did it. They had to wrestle me out again though."

 

Back stroke ... mum Sanam gives Rosanna a ride

 

 

 

Pooling talents ... toddler gains strength in water

 

 

 

Surgeons managed to remove most of the tumour — the rest will shrink as she grows.

They said swimming could help build up her strength.

Sanam first tried her in the pool when Rosanna was ten weeks old. Sanam, from Manchester, said: "She loved it so much we started taking her several times a week.

"She had no problem going underwater and never cried. The doctors were very pleased and said she was getting stronger even faster than they hoped."

Rosanna first swam unaided on a holiday in Spain aged 13 months. A proud Sanam added: "She hadn't even taken her first steps yet — but she could swim like a baby mermaid."

Rosanna, who has gained her ten-metre certificate, likes diving and swimming underwater, and can do front crawl and butterfly strokes.

Article Written by CAROLINE GRANT - The Sun