Georgina (16) looks forward to a career in farming and animal care

Georgina Bailey, who recently turned 16, attends Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London for treatment of both these life-threatening conditions.

Mum Christine explained that due to Covid-19 Georgina has been unable to attend GOSH or The Royal Belfast Children’s Hospital in person, but they have been able to keep these hospitals up to date with her health via telephone appointments and e-mail.

She added: “Georgina has always had an interest in farming and seems to have honed her livestock skills, over the Easter Holidays, by helping her dad William at lambing time on the home farm.

“She regularly helps him with his sheep scanning business at the weekends or evening time, when schoolwork and studying are over for the day. She also enjoys her Agriculture & Land Use classes at Dromore High School, Co. Down, where she is in year 12.

“We, as a family, are very grateful to the local farming community for their continued support, either by donations to the Children’s Hyperinsulinism Charity based at GOSH or simply by thinking of and praying for us.

“If you want to find out more about the CHI Charity, please e-mail [email protected] or their website is http://www.hyperinsulinism.co.uk

“As the children return to school, after the Easter break, we hope and pray that things are getting back to normal, even if that is a new norm,” Christine added.