The emotional moment an 11-year-old girl broke the news to her father that she’s getting a heart transplant was captured on video.
“Daddy, I’m getting a heart!”
Ava was born in 2014 with several heart defects, and was just six days old when she had her first open heart surgery.
Last year when she was ten, a sinus infection escalated, pushing her into heart failure—so she was put on the transplant list.
Ava spent more than 200 days waiting for an organ donor at the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital in Ohio.
But in March 2025, her mom, Jamie, received the news that Ava would be getting a new heart.
Ava immediately wanted to call her dad, Sean, who was at home with his younger daughter.
“I was so excited and couldn’t believe it was actually happening,” Ava recalled later.
The heart transplant took place that month, performed by pediatric and congenital heart surgeon Dr. Hani Najm.
And, Ava was able to return home after eight months in the hospital.
“Hearing Ava say those words, ‘I’m getting a heart’, was overwhelming.
“After everything she’d been through, we were finally one step closer to coming home for good.”
WATCH the heartwarming moment below…
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Sometimes humans are wonderful to each other, no matter the burden they have to bear.