Emily, 31, said: “I just kept myself busy, I went for a big walk around Birmingham and kept checking in, always waiting in suspense to hear when Rory was out and then when Harriet was out. Harriet wasn’t out of theatre until 9 o’clock that evening.”
Rory said: “[Recovery] was a lot slower road for her. I seemed to repair quite quickly and she didn’t. I’d rather it had been the other way round.
“But she’s doing amazingly now. They told us that once she’d got the new liver she’ll bounce back and she has, definitely, she’s grown and she’s putting on weight. You can’t put enough food in front of her because she just wants to eat and eat and eat.”
Emily said her daughter had “made lots of progress since being home and she’s the same Harriet, if not better than before, because she’s got a functioning liver”.