Overview

• She spent more than 200 days in the hospital awaiting a donor heart as her family created routines and celebrations to preserve normalcy.
• In March, Dr. Madeleine Townsend informed her that a donor heart had been identified, and surgeons operated the next day at Cleveland Clinic Children’s.
• She returned home in April after weeks of recovery and has resumed activities such as swimming, playing outside, and celebrating her 11th birthday.
• She is preparing to return to school after missing much of fourth grade during the wait and recovery.
• The Coopers expressed deep gratitude to the donor family for the gift that made the transplant possible.