There were no signs that there was anything wrong with 7-month-old
Jacob Duffy before he was born in November last year. But mum Rachael Hendry,
24, and dad John Duffy, 28, found that baby Jacob had four extra digits – and
an undiagnosed complex syndrome which has left him with a number of defects,
including a hole in the heart and eye conditions.
Rachael said: ‘We joked around a bit at first and said that
at least he will be good on the piano but obviously we quickly realised that
things were a bit more serious.
‘I quite like the extra fingers and I don’t really want the
surgeons to chop them off but kids are quite cruel and I could hardly send him
to school with them.’
Doctors aim to operate after he is 12 months old – and his
parents are now trying to raise cash for a
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