A woman dismissed as lazy by her PE teachers at school has survived for 23 years with a 1.5in (4cm) hole in her heart.
Louise Banks would collapse during physical exercise and was branded a "fainty child".
The condition, dismissed as epilepsy by doctors, could have killed her.
But a new GP sent her for an ultrasound scan which revealed the hole, four times bigger than that normally considered a large defect.
Miss Banks, 23, had open heart surgery and is now home in Exeter, Devon, with her partner Matthew Folland, 30, and their son Ben, four.
She is looking forward to a normal life, playing sport and dancing.
She said: "I always knew there was something wrong, I could feel my heart start and stop. It was like a baby wriggling in my chest.
"I don't feel angry with the doctors for missing it."
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