Aaron's Heart 2-5-87

Just over 20 years ago, our son was featured on Channel 2 News at Noon and again on that evening's News at Ten. Aaron was undergoing major heart surgery and we were asked by John Fowler if he could present Aaron's surgery in a story that mentioned how commonplace these operations were becoming. We agreed and then recorded the pieces on VHS. We also recorded a few minutes about a party that occurred every year in February at Children's Hospital Oakland. By the way, Aaron will be undergoing a procedure at Stanford Hospital next month. From our perspective, the current story is how these your heart patients are now so much older and need the medical system to change in order to accommodate their needs (insurance, definition of "disabled", how cardiologists need to understand the differences between these Adult Congenital Heart Defect patients and their more usual patients, etc.).

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