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(NewsNation) — A viral video showed 6-year-old John-Henry Lee's announcement that helium is getting a caller donor heart. Now, his household is thanking his donor's household and looking guardant to John-Henry's recovery.
John-Henry was calved with a uncommon congenital bosom defect called hypoplastic near bosom syndrome, wherever 1 broadside of the bosom doesn't make correctly. He was conscionable 5 days aged erstwhile helium had his archetypal open-heart country and yet began experiencing bosom failure.
John-Henry was connected the bosom transplant list for six months earlier matching with a donor heart.
His mother, Sarah Lee, said she was stunned erstwhile the household got the news.
"I instantly started crying, it's tears of joy, it's not tears of sadness," she said. "You know, you hold truthful long."
While John-Henry is location from his bosom transplant, helium inactive has a agelong roadworthy up of him, arsenic it takes six months to a twelvemonth to retrieve from a bosom transplant.
Sarah told NewsNation the quality besides came with immoderate sadness, arsenic it means different household had to marque a hard determination to donate their child's organs. It was thing she had trouble coming to presumption with initially.
"When they archetypal told maine helium needed a bosom transplant, the archetypal happening I thought was, 'someone other has to suffer a kid successful bid for my kid to proceed life,'" Sarah said.
She said the transplant squad helped her judge it and admit that the donor family's kid volition unrecorded connected wrong John-Henry.
As for John-Henry, he's excited astir 1 happening present that helium has a caller heart: He wants to person fun.
