Avery Toole's Open-Heart Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital

The day after Avery Toole was born, an echocardiogram revealed that she had a serious and rare heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Her mother, Cheryl, is a nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Boston Children's Hospital knew her only chance for survival was immediate open-heart surgery.

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