I was a pediatric surgeon when six-year-old Owen came to me for life-saving heart surgery. He was one of the smallest patients I had ever operated on. Six years old. …
He entered our lives as a scared six-year-old. Twenty-five years later, he became the doctor saving children just like him. Read More I was a pediatric surgeon when six-year-old Owen came to me for life-saving heart surgery. He was one of the smallest patients I had ever operated on. Six years old. …
Sometimes family isn’t about who gives you life. It’s about who stays. Read More I was a pediatric surgeon when six-year-old Owen came to me for life-saving heart surgery. He was one of the smallest patients I had ever operated on. Six years old. …
He spent his childhood wondering why his parents left. As an adult, he finally learned why. Read More I was a pediatric surgeon when six-year-old Owen came to me for life-saving heart surgery. He was one of the smallest patients I had ever operated on. Six years old. …
The dinosaur he carried into surgery stayed with him for 25 years. Read More I was a pediatric surgeon when six-year-old Owen came to me for life-saving heart surgery. He was one of the smallest patients I had ever operated on. Six years old. …
His parents didn’t disappear because they didn’t love him. They disappeared because they were trying to protect him. Read More I was a pediatric surgeon when six-year-old Owen came to me for life-saving heart surgery. He was one of the smallest patients I had ever operated on. Six years old. …
Owen had two mothers—and eventually discovered both had loved him all along. Read More I was a pediatric surgeon when six-year-old Owen came to me for life-saving heart surgery. He was one of the smallest patients I had ever operated on. Six years old. …
We raised him believing his parents didn’t want him. The truth broke our hearts. Read More I was a pediatric surgeon when six-year-old Owen came to me for life-saving heart surgery. He was one of the smallest patients I had ever operated on. Six years old. …
She froze when she saw him because she thought he had died 25 years earlier. Read More I was a pediatric surgeon when six-year-old Owen came to me for life-saving heart surgery. He was one of the smallest patients I had ever operated on. Six years old. …
The little boy who once needed heart surgery grew up to become a doctor at the same hospital. Read More I was a pediatric surgeon when six-year-old Owen came to me for life-saving heart surgery. He was one of the smallest patients I had ever operated on. Six years old. …
“If he has no one, we’ll be his family.” That one sentence changed three lives forever. Read More