Girl, 5, who suffers from 4 heart defects which could kill her if she gets upset appeals for Christmas cards to keep her alive

Isabell Tipper (right), five, from Walsall, suffers from four life-threatening heart defects that mean if she gets sad her heart becomes starved of oxygen. 


The range of issues can cause her blood pressure to drop to dangerous levels and lead to organ failure if her emotions run too high. Despite undergoing open-heart surgery when she was just six months old (inset), it proved unsuccessful and she nearly died last year when she became upset. Her mother Kimberley, 27, (left) appealed for strangers to send Isabell birthday cards in May to keep her alive. After receiving over 2,000 messages from well-wishers, they have appealed once more to strangers to send her poorly daughter Christmas cards.