Aug 11 2008 By Laura Coventry Aimee-Leigh Kept Battling Against The Odds And Is Now Looking Forward Toher First Day At Primary School A YEAR ago little Aimee-Leigh McKenzie was lying in a coma on a life support machine, close to death. But the remarkable little girl has made a full recovery and next Monday, the bubbly four-year-old, who has cystic fibrosis, starts at primary school. It really will be a day mum Claire McDonald, 23, thought she would never see, and it is one that she will treasure. Claire admits she was so excited at Aimee starting school, she had bought her uniformbyMay. And she also knows how hard it will be to fight back tears when Aimee waves goodbye from the school gates. It hardly seems a year since she sat by Aimee's bedside in Glasgow's Yorkhill Hospital for Sick Children and willed her to live as she...
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