Amazing Grace; Baby's remarkable recovery after life-support switched off.Full story and more pictures on Pages 4& 5 THE parents of a baby girl struck down by meningitis aged just six weeks last night told how they took the heartbreaking decision to turn off her life-support machine - only for her to begin breathing on her own. Grace Vincent astonished her parents and doctors when she staged the remarkable recovery after being struck down by the deadly disease. Yesterday, Grace returned to the family's North Tyneside North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear in the North East of England. Its seat is at the Town Hall, Wallsend. Created in 1974, the borough lies within the historic county boundaries of Northumberland. home. Her mum Emily Ashurst said: "What she is doing now is amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. . Everyone has been calling her Amazing Grace "Amazing Grace" is a well-known Christian hymn. The words were written late in 1772 by Englishman John Newton. They first appeared in print in Newton's Olney Hymns, 1779 that he worked on with William Cowper. ." CAPTION(S): AMAZING A family photograph of Grace Vincent, aged just one week, asleep in her buggy. She was struck down with meningitis aged six weeks. |
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