Staff clap as little Ollie leaves US hospital

A one-year-old who had surgery in California to widen his arteries and fix a hole in his heart has been discharged from hospital.

Ollie, from Gobowen in Shropshire, was born with a number of serious issues and UK hospitals had only offered him palliative care.

His mother, Jasmin, who now lives in Wrexham, raised more than £1.5m to pay for the operation in the US and posted a video on TikTok of staff members from Stanford Children's Hospital cheering, clapping and waving pompoms as she pushed her son down a corridor in his pram.

She said she "cried like a baby" after the discharge parade, and said she was "unbelievably proud of her baby boy".

The video showed two colourful balloons attached to his pram, which Jasmin said had been bought for them the day before by someone on social media after their other pram had broken.

After the parade, staff sang Ollie his favourite song, Golden, by KPop Demon Hunters as they waved him around the corner.

Jasmin said he would continue the rest of his recovery for a week or two in the hotel they were staying in, and then they would go back to the UK for the second phase of his treatment.

In a video on Saturday, she said: "He is looking so much better, he is doing so well in himself, he is shuffling around constantly, he is so so active."

"This journey has been hard, it's been tiring, but hopefully we're coming to the end of it now."

Ollie's heart condition is known as pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (PA-VSD MAPCAs), and it has meant he has spent most of his first year in and out of hospital.

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