Very grateful : Newborn survives rare heart transplant
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Barbarita Acosta, or affectionately nicknamed Barbie, is celebrating her first birthday this weekend. The infant already overcame extraordinary medical odds.
Barbie was born with neonatal lupus, a rare condition that attacked her heart. At just five days old she received a pacemaker. But after a few weeks, doctors said she needed to find a heart donor.
“They told us that very same day that by the end of the night she would be life-lifted out of there,” mother Angel Moreno said. “So, we came home and packed up as soon as we can. And we just got in the car and followed the helicopter. Tried to beat it there.”