Kaleb

Kaleb was born with Hypoplastic left heart, which basically means the left hand side of his heart did not develop - he has had 3 open heart surgeries, one at 6 days,12 weeks then at 3 years, plus lots of little operations in between. He is medicated 4 times per day, and has regular blood tests.

He is such a brave little boy. He chooses which finger we are going to prick and sets up the blood machine for his blood tests. He is not to phased by his condition, he tells everyone he has a sore heart that needs to be fixed sometimes. He does most things other kids do, however he gets puffed easily and really feels the cold.
Usually he looks forward to going in to the hospital to see his doctors and nurses UNLESS they are going to hurt him. He enjoys having his heart listened to and oxygen levels tested and loves being weighed and measured.
He even says at the moment he wants to be a doctor that fixes hearts when he is older. It’s those comments that break my heart as he just may never get that old.
But at the end of the day he is a happy little boy and his condition makes him who he is and has made our family stronger and look at life in a different way. I feel blessed we were chosen to be given our special little man.