On July 10, 2003, my son Andrew was born in Framingham, Mass. The Metrowest Medical Center doctors found a problem with Andrew's heart and called Children's Hospital Boston, since they did not have the appropriate machines to diagnose him.
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.
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