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This Oct. 2, 2015 photo provided by the Lane Thomas Foundation shows Lane Thomas Graves, in Omaha, Neb. Graves died in 2016 after an alligator attacked him at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. The Lane Thomas Foundation his parents created after his death is moving beyond the small-scale donations it has been making so far to individual families with children undergoing transplants to raise awareness nationally about the need for pediatric organ donation. (Lane Thomas Foundation via AP)
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December 25, 2020
8-year-old Kaiden Barron had just one thing on his list for Santa this year.
“For Christmas I wanted everything to go back to normal,” said Kaiden.
That’s because as Christmas approached, Kaiden found himself, along with his family at Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor.
A place, he’d already spent plenty of time. Kaiden was born with what’s known as Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, meaning the left side of his heart is underdeveloped. Doctors discovered this in Kaiden when he was just 4 days old.
That meant a series of heart surgeries for Kaiden, ending with what’s called a Fontan procedure.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A young boy is spending his Christmas at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, but he’s happy to be there after receiving the Christmas gift of a lifetime.
By the age of 8, Kaiden Barron had already underwent five open-heart surgeries. His family said he was doing great until very recently.
“About six weeks ago, he started coughing up these very strange white things that were hard,” said his mother, Ashley Barron.