2-year-old girl, whose family was once helped through Denver7 Gives, has successful heart transplant

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Jessica Porter is a Denver7 Anchor and Reporter.

AURORA, Colo. — A 2-year-old had a heart transplant and was discharged from Children’s Hospital nearly a year after our viewers helped her family through Denver7 Gives.

For a year — through surgeries, tubes and close calls — she waited at Children’s Hospital for a donor heart. Children’s Hospital is a large heart transplant center and perform 15 to 20 heart transplants per year in children, which is considered high for a pediatric center.“When I got that call, all I could think about first off was that somebody else will say goodbye to their child that day and so that was heavy on my heart,” Debra said.

“The moment that they took her off the bypass and her heart started functioning — her new heart, her gift — started functioning fully, immediately for her,” Debra said.

 

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