A NANTWICH family are calling on people to support a charity which will help them stay with their baby son while he awaits a heart transplant.

Laura Wells and Gary Scott’s two-month-old son Thomas is currently on the Berlin Heart at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, one of only two offering the treatment in the country, while he awaits a transplant.

Lisa, Gary and 22-month-old daughter Maisie are currently staying at the Sick Children’s Trust’s free family accommodation, across the city, but hope to help the charity raise the £150,000 needed to complete the £1.9million family accommodation.

“When you are told your child needs care in a hospital a long way from home you don’t think twice about how you will manage, you just get in the car and go,” said the Scott family.

“We didn’t spare a second thought for where we would sleep, all we could think about was Thomas.

“We thought about hotel accommodation or even renting somewhere in Newcastle to live, but the cost of private accommodation was a real concern.”

The Scott family moved to housing at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in early October, but Gary returns to work and Maisie to nursery every Monday to Friday.

“We feel that it is important to try and keep Maisie’s routine as normal as possible so that she’s not too unsettled,” added Lisa.

“I stay in Newcastle with Thomas, travelling between Crawford House and the Freeman Hospital by bus and taxi.

“It isn’t easy, Maisie misses her mum terribly, and parting on Mondays is torture for us all.

“The petrol to travel home and back each week costs about £100, the journey takes over four hours and we don’t know how long we will have to be in Newcastle.”

However, the Scotts are grateful to the Sick Children’s Trust and believe a place closer to Thomas would make things much easier.

“To have a home from home at the Freeman Hospital will be fantastic. It will make things much easier for us as we’ll be on-site at the hospital, just minutes from Thomas’s bedside.”