‘Oh Mammy don’t cry’
Reflecting on little Eve Barnwell’s story, her mother, Claire, revealed how she could not help herself from crying in front of her daughter after agreeing with doctors that removing more than half of her little girl’s right lung would give her a new lease of life.
Eve, an only child, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was just seven months old. In her short life she has suffered from recurrent lung infections and spent long periods in hospital.
