Matthew a healthy three year old toddler, from Takapuna, New Zealand has already had two open heart surgeries. If he had been born two years earlier the doctors could not have saved him.
An eight hour procedure called Norwood/Rastelli was performed on Matthew when he was five days old. In the procedure his right ventricle and aorta were patched by using human and animal tissue (cow and pig).
Matthew’s mother said "I was so scared. I’ll never forget hearing my husband on the other end of the phone telling me the news.
"Basically his heart was a mess. It was like a jigsaw …read more