The first of a new ten-part series about life at Birmingham children's hospital.
The hospital has moved across the city to a Victorian building transformed into a state-of-the-art paediatric centre.
However, the following day four-year-old Jack [text removed] has to have his leg x-rayed in the main radiology unit as the x-ray machine is not yet working.
Cheerful Becky [text removed], who has brittle-bone disease, is in for a tricky operation to straighten her arm.
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While this series mainly features stories of triumph over tragedy, it's almost impossible not to get a bit weepy watching it. This first programme is certainly no exception.
Eleven-week-old Nicole who was born with a cleft lip and palate. Although the plastic surgeon performs this operation on about 35 babies a year, it is a delicate procedure because the tissues are so fine. If the parents' understandable relief at the success of the operation doesn't get you reaching for a hanky, the sight of 15-year-old Russell's parents kissing him "goodbye" as he goes into the operating theatre to have a faulty heart valve replaced, probably will.
On a more upbeat note, we say goodbye to Adele who, after six months in hospital, can finally go home.