After 144 days at Dell Children's Medical Center, Junior is home for Christmas. Gerardo Ramirez and Myrna Arguello remember carrying their son into Dell Children's on Aug. 1. He kept fainting. "We didn't know how bad he was," Arguello says. "He was not telling us." His heart was failing. On a scale in which they measure cardiac illness between 0 to 4, with 4 being the worst, Gerardo Ramirez Jr., who likes to be called Junior, was a 4-plus, says Dr. Charles Fraser Jr., chief of the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease at Dell Children’s and UT Health Austin, the clinical practice of Dell Medical School at the University of Texas. "He was really sick. He was right at death's door."