Carlos’ mom knew something was wrong with her baby. He was not gaining weight. “By six months, he was already on supplementary formula and vitamins, and he still wasn’t growing,” his mother Marian Salomé told us.

Around his first birthday, a trip to a specialist in El Salvador finally shed some light on the problem. “The cardiologist said he had a hole in his heart and that his heart was enlarged!” she added.

Then the doctor told them about the second problem: Very little blood was flowing to their baby’s lungs. “At that moment, he said to me, ‘Do you know how dangerous this is?’

He said your child could collapse at any moment because the right side of his heart is not functioning.”

The doctor then said the only way to save Carlos’ life was open heart surgery. There was no way the

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