Lara and Robert Henke.

She was such a brave, happy child, to every second photo, she laughed," she once said of Robert Enke. On 17 September 2006 she died after a relatively mild ear surgery. Teresa and Robert Enke were grateful for all the beautiful moments they wrested with Lara the arduous life. You have learned how much joy can arise when children with heart disease can be helped by an excellent medical care as at the MHH. If the Robert Enke Foundation can contribute a small part in ensuring that other children and parents will be given this chance, the Foundation had already achieved a lot, thinks Teresa.
Photo: Lara sink

There is a problem, the doctor said the Teknon Clinic in Barcelona to sink Teresa. The child in her belly was suffering from a hypo plastic left heart syndrome and Turner syndrome. Teresa was in the 23rd Weeks pregnant and I knew with these technical terms to begin little. A little later, she realized how fortunate it was that serious illnesses were detected by prenatal diagnosis so early. Otherwise, Lara would have had no chance of being born alive.

Children with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, one of the most serious heart defects, have a short life expectancy. Teresa and Robert Enke said that abortions do not come into question. This is her daughter, with all its consequences. Lara was born on 31.08.2004 in the clinic of Hannover Medical School in Hanover, where the family is because of professional football by now moved from Barcelona. The parents know before the birth, Lara will need at least three heart operations to ensure their survival. But what it means to live with a seriously ill child, they understand only when Lara is in the world.

She spends the first seven months in hospital, four of them in intensive care. Once her heart stand still, other times she suffers a stroke. The doctors save her every time

In January 2005, Enke take her daughter home. You have to align their lives entirely to her. Lara needs to get exact times her medicine, she is fed through a stomach tube, the oxygen saturation of blood must be constantly monitored. There are other moments of happiness as a healthy child, but it is still very fortunate to have a daughter, the parents feel: When Lara, who could keep the food rarely in himself, eats for the first time an entire glass. When they can do of course with a whole suitcase of medical equipment for emergencies in their luggage, with her first short trips to Maschsee.