'Me and my wife cried happy tears when we were told she was ok after ten hours or surgery.'
Ruby Cotter, aged one, underwent a ten hour heart transplant operation in December 2019
‘She is a extremely rare baby, only 0.4% of children are born with with the condition Ruby has and only a third of those end up needing a heart transplant. She has been so strong and has amazed us at how well she has done.‘We knew she could have died on the operating table and it was terrifying. Me and my wife cried happy tears when we were told she was ok after ten hours or surgery.
But her life-threatening heart condition went undetected until she was three-months-old, in September last year, and Brian said he noticed her arms and legs were ‘stone cold’ and she had a low temperature. Concerned, Brian and Ashley brought her to Stony Brook University Hospital’s emergency room in New York, before Ruby was later transferred to the New York Presbyterian Hospital for specialist assessment.
‘We were told a donor had been found the night before the operation, I was watching Masterchef at the time actually. It was very emotional because we realized that another family had to go through so much trauma to save our baby. To date more than $100,000 has been raised and whilst Brian and Ashley have not needed all of it so far, Brian said a large bulk of the cash will be put to one side for when Ruby will inevitably need further transplants later in life.
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