Hunter is an active, energetic 17-year-old who loves to play football. Watching him kick the game-winning field goal against a key division opponent, no one would guess that Hunter wasn’t always so healthy. When he was a newborn, his family noticed that he had difficulty breathing and he was soon diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart defect. At only 1 month old, Hunter became the first patient to receive a heart transplant at All Children’s Hospital in Florida. Like Hunter, the All Children’s Hospital pediatric heart transplant program has grown to demonstrate tremendous success. More than 130 children have followed in Hunter’s footsteps, receiving a second chance at life through a program that currently boasts a 100 percent survival rate at the one-year post-transplant mark. Hunter’s high school can count on his participation in sports this fall as he enters his senior year. Hunter hopes to find a future in one of the sports he’s come to love: football, soccer or tennis.
Wow... it is amazing the work the Childrens hospitals are doing. Hunter and many many more children would never had had a chance at the young young age of one month old if it weren't for them. Thank you so much for providing us with the good fortune of having these children among us still today.
Posted by: Sonia | 11/03/2012 at 06:32 PM