Twelve-week old baby thrives after heart transplant

I was born with heart problems in 1993 and spent the first eighteen years of my life calling Sick Kids a second home. Their cardic centre does some great work.

Happy the baby is surviving, but sad that the other little one didn't....

Happy that the Xenarios baby has a new heart. Kudos to the donor parents for having the grace to help someone they may never know, in spite of their grief.

So nice to hear that their baby is thriving. All the best to them.

God bless the people who give the gift of live so that others may live. I hope this child lives a long and healthy life and condolences to the parents, of the child who's surely in Heaven, for their great sacrifice too. Could not have been an easy decision.

Janice, you are greatly misinformed. Many children are living for many years before requiring another transplant. Some are now teenagers on the first hearts. Who are you to judge what is right or wrong? Technology and medications have come a long way since the first transplant and the children are living longer and longer with minimal interventions. Hearts were never intended to last forever and some do last longer than others, but research continues, and perhaps one day stem cells can repair a heart instead of replacing it, until then let technology do what it can to give these kids a life worth living.

SO HAPPY THIS LITTLE ONE IS GOING TO LIVE, I AM VERY GLAD FOR ORGAN DONATION!

They work miracles in health care now. We are very fortunate to live in this era. It was only a very few generations ago, in our grandparents' or great-grandparents' time, that anything could possibly kill you, did. You can find graphic evidence of that by walking through those old, rural 'abandoned' cemeteries (there are many near me). The numbers of very young people, (babies, children, teens) buried in them is incredible.

I think it's wonderful that recipients are allowed to write a letter of gratitude. It must be extremely difficult for the donor's family to deal with the death of their loved one, and I'm sure it provides them with some measure of comfort to hear the gratitude of the recipient. But I wouldn't think that the donor's families would want to meet them. I think that would be too hard on them. Don't expect that.

Wonderful gift to give someone, a chance at life. Our 'suit of clothes' is not us, pass it on! Discuss this with family members so that should the time come to make a decision, you know it's with their blessing so there is no lingering guilt. Our spirit is separate from the container.

Happy and Sad at the same time, glad they were able to get a donor. Its not easy for a match, and more people today are giving consent to donate their organs and consent from a child they loved.

Janice, do you have children? Doesn't sound like it.

very happy to hear that he is doing well....very sad for the family who lost their little one!

At least it was in Toronto. Great news for Canadians. That doesn't mean drink 'till you need a liver transplant. When replacing organs becomes the norm... we won't care how much we abuse ourselves because we can replace the parts like a car. Cyborgs.

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I have a problem with tranplants for tiny babies, because of the anti rejection drugs they
will have to take for most likely the rest of their lives. Not to mention the fact, that the
transplanted heart does not grow with the baby and will have to be replaced. Same with
other ograns. I think that sometimes it is much kinder to allow these babies to die a
painfree death than to keep them alive. The baby is thriving now, but what about a
year from now? Medical science has come a long way, but it still has a long way to
go, when it comes to organ rejection and the effects of long term use of drugs.

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