something we re not prepared for? but it s the reality of it. sierra has had some swelling and a cough that won t go away. it s kind of like a post-traumatic stress disorder where we were so blindsided with lindsey that now you think okay, am i just hypersensitive or she has a cough. is that cough because it s a virus or is it because she s in congestive heart failure? all those tubes filled up? that is a lot. one after the other, the girls go in for their biopsies. the procedure that once terrified lindsey has become old hat. she s calm enough to joke with her doctors. at least i m not crying. i m not crying either. yeah, you ve never cried. you re a man. the pressures are good. lindsey s transplanted heart is working beautifully. no sign of rejection. but what about sierra s? after this, baby girl, there s going to be a little bit
do it, do it. lindsay, lindsay. one down, three to go. two weeks after getting her new heart, lindsay is ready to leave the hospital. are you ready to go? oh, yeah. she s out of here. she isn t going far, she isn t going far, mind you, just down the street to ronald mcdonald house until both lindsey and sierra are cleared for the trip they so desperately want, the one back home. but first another biopsy to see if sierra s treatment stopped or slowed the infection. if the results are good jason and states ry are hoping to pack up their family and go home to oregon. as soon as school lets out at the end of may. lindsey s heart is working beautifully. no sign of rejection. but has the treatment for sierra s rejection worked? the pressure s inside the atrium which were elevated are still elevated. so it hasn t gotten better. reporter: sierra s heart pressures are the same as they
heart/lung bypass machine and is disconnected from the backpack he s been carrying. then surgeons carefully remove his failing heart along with the artificial heart pump. all the hardware inside his chest makes his transplant even more complicated. while they wait for updates on gage, sierra and lindsey reminisce about their own heart transplants. i remember gage sitting up there with me. i remember you guying good-bye. that s it. doctors inspect the donor heart. it looks perfect. the heart is going in. looking good. i thought i d come say hi. looks really good. good. over the next four hours surgeons carefully stitch the donor heart into place. we re all done, then. things went very well. no problems going in. you know, measurably, anyway.
be brave. okay, bud? surgeons have warned jason and stacy there s a chance gage could come out of surgery on an artificial heart pump. just about like the one lindsey was on. it would mean he could not leave the hospital until a donor heart could be found. to think that he walked in here a happy little kid with this little bear and to think that he might come out or we could get the call any second now that they re having to put him on a heart device, it s pretty hard. and we know gage s course is going down those same roads that his sister did. but it s hard to see, see how far is he going to go before he has to play that same course, see him get so sick. that s what s so wrenching. you can t do anything as a
a new heart, it s working very well. the bingham s fourth heart transplant and eighth open heart surgery is behind them. i hope this is the last time. yeah. jason, stacey and the older kids promised gage they d be there when he woke up from surgery. you did it. you got your brand new heart. stacey hasn t tasted sugar in 512 days. a sacrifice she made as gage waited for a heart. now she s brought a treat to celebrate. on the count of three. one, two, three. boy, how i missed you. now go buy me some sweat pants. lindsey and meghan don t want