‘I’m Getting New Heart!’: 6-Year-Old's Joyful Announcement of Complicated Surgery Inspires Netizens

Viral Video: In a heartwarming moment, a 6-year-old boy joyfully shares the news of receiving a new heart with the many caretakers who supported him during his hospital stay. 

It took six months for John-Henry and his family to get the word that they would be getting a life-saving heart transplant. 

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In the video posted by Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, the boy who had a heart defect from birth is heard exclaiming, “I’m getting a new heart,” with enthusiasm.

“Phyllis, I’m getting a new heart!”In the video, John-Henry greets one of the staff members in the hospital.

According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, HLHS affects blood flow through the heart and arises when the left side of the heart fails to develop appropriately during pregnancy.

“When the transplant coordinator said they found his special heart, I immediately broke down,” Sarah Lee, John-Henry’s mom, told Cleveland Clinic.

She added, “I walked in the room teary-eyed to tell John-Henry, and when I told him, he said, ‘I have to go tell everybody.’”

As per Sarah, John-Henry underwent his first open-heart surgery at the age of five days after being hospitalized in the paediatric intensive care unit after birth.

Before he had turned one year old, John-Henry had his second open heart surgery, according to the hospital.