Today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune has a story about a 20-month old boy from Fargo, N. Dakota who was airlifted to Mayo Clinic because of severe heart failure resulting from dilated cardiomyopathy. He was listed for a heart transplant.
Organ donation can be like a roll of the dice. Luck changes suddenly.
It seemed luck was not with 20-month-old Kobe Giesen, his little heart failing. Then things got even worse: A transplanted heart failed and it seemed all was lost.
But then, luck can change.
Today a heart is beating strongly in Kobe’s chest — after a second transplant last week. It’s a first for the Mayo Clinic, doing two heart transplants on one child in the span of a week.
You can read the entire story here on the Star Tribune site.
