LITTLE miracle Mia Tear is grinning from ear to ear after meeting the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton.
Mia, seven, from Douglas met Prince William’s wife on Valentine’s day, while a patient at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.
Her parents John and Sharon Tear, from Pulrose, were devastated when they were told during Sharon’s 16-week ultrasound scan that there was health problems with their unborn child.
The couple, who also have a son Ciaran, eight, were advised to terminate the pregnancy but decided against that decision.
Doctors predicated that the Mia would not walk and would be disabled but the bubbly pupil from Manor Park School has proved them all wrong.
Recalling the news at her 16-week scan, Sharon said: ‘We were devastated, very emotional because we also had a little boy and he was not even one. They told us she would not walk and she would be disabled. It is brilliant how she’s come on from what they said would happen. She is a little miracle.’
Mia, who suffers from Hydrocephalus, which means she gets too much water in her brain, has had nine operations, eight on her brain. Her first operation was at just nine days old.
Mia who braved the cold in her heart dressing gown, waited with a note for the princess which read: ‘hello Kate, love Mia.’ A delighted Mia, said: ‘We were shouting “Kate, Kate, Kate”. She said she liked my dressing gown.’
This was Mia’s fourth visit to Alder Hey in the last six weeks and the visit from the princess cheered her up.
Her dad John, who is proud of how far his daughter has come, said: ‘It’s absolutely brilliant.
‘They told us the best thing to do was to terminate, looking at her now, I don’t know why they would do it. We expected the worst, we were told she was going to be rushed into intensive care, when she was born.’
Mia, who likes to dress up as a princess and a bride, had previously watched Kate marry Prince William on television.
She has a shunt in her brain to take the fluid away and gets special treatment from family and friends because of what she has been through.
An excited Mia said that her dad and brother were jealous to have missed out on meeting the princess.
