Eight year old Tilly Sawford, from Nottingham, was given just a 5% chance of survival after she fell into a bath of scalding water when she was only 15 months old. A nightmareish story for any family, the youngster was playing with her older siblings upstairs, when one of them accidentally turned on the hot tap.
The family had just moved into a new house and didn't know the thermostat on the boiler was faulty - so as scalding water filled the bath, Tilly had climbed onto a bean bag next to it.
She fell in, and her mum Emma remembers: “I heard this scream and I knew straight away it was a pain scream. I ran upstairs and found her in the bath.”
Tilly passed out, and was rushed to hospital, where she spent six months in intensive care with 86% burns. Her parents were told she would die on five separate occasions.
Since then, the eight-year-old has undergone more than 500 operations, including grafts of shark cartilage and cow collagen and the amputation of a leg.
"Tilly is absolutely amazing, a lot of the operations she's had have been quite big ones and she's done better than any adult would," her mum says. "She's just so courageous, I just can't get it into words. She's not scared whatsoever of going to hospital, despite the tremendous pain she goes through.
"She's defied everything. They said that she wouldn't make it and she did. There's no child that has had that amount of burns so deep and survived. They said she'd never walk again and she has. The things they say she can't do, she'll do."
Tilly, who wants to be a singer or a nurse when she grows up, will need operations until she’s 21 - but is taking it all in her stride.
She says: "I stay happy because of my friends and my brothers and sisters and my doggies.
"It’s weird going to hospital but if there are other children on the ward I make sure they are ok and tell them it's not as bad as they think.
"As long as I have my brothers and sisters to make me laugh I’ll be fine."
Now, Tilly has been nominated for a Child Of Courage award at this year's Pride of Britain awards - and she got to meet her heroes Little Mix!
I think we can all agree, it's well deserved.
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