A nine-year-old given a 50 per cent chance of survival after a life-saving organ donation is celebrating a major milestone in his recovery.
William Milne, of Addiscombe, is having a "special birthday" to mark the five years since he was given a bowel transplant.
William was told he had a 50 per cent chance of surviving the first five years of having his new bowel but the Chipstead Valley Primary School is now living life to the full.
The nine-year-old has cerebral palsy, Asperger Syndrome and was born with a bowel that failed to absorb any nutrition or fluids.
By the age of four he had spent 80 per cent of his life in hospital and had had 50 operations.
His bowel was full of stagnant liquid that caused frequent life threatening septicaemia infections.
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