Children's sent a cardiac team to pick up Andrew. The cardiac team brought him by my room before leaving the hospital, and provided me with their phone numbers so I could check on him at any time. Children's called Metrowest Medical Center to ask my permission for them to perform an angiogram to keep the hole in his heart open.

The next day Richard Jonas, MD, Andrew's surgeon, came to see me within minutes of my arrival. He carefully explained the second problem with Andrew's heart, and stated in detail what they were going to do to fix it. Andrew had the transposition of the great arteries, which meant that the arteries to his heart were in the wrong places.

My family -- Andrew's grandparents, brother, aunts and uncles -- would like to express their thanks to Children's for not limiting the amount of people that were allowed in both the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the hospital rooms.

We will always be grateful to the staff at Children's and want to say thanks for helping Andrew become the healthy, very active little boy that he is today.