(Savannah) Watching cartoons …part of the quality time Amy and Brad Stewart spends with their adorable son Cabell. “He was born Christmas day. Born about a week and a half early. So we were thrilled. We knew he was special. You know a Christmas miracle,” says Amy. Perfectly healthy until 3 months. “It just went way down hill from there. He stopped nursing, wouldn’t take a bottle. We were lucky if he’d eat 2 ounces of milk a day. His breathing was very labored.” So weak the Stewart’s turned to doctors. “We probably went 40 times in the space of 3 months and couldn’t figure out what was wrong.”
Turns out Cabell’s heart was enlarged. He was Battling a rare defect… dialated cardiomyopathy. "It was getting to a point where he needed a transplant or he could die.” In the middle of tragedy another family’s prayers answered. “They gave him his life back. They gave him another chance at life at 8 months old,” says Amy. “He fought 99 days for his life and we’ll spend the rest of our lives fighting for him ,”says Brad. Cabell goes to Eagleston Children's Hospital in Atlanta once a month for his checkup. The Stewart's have dedicated their lives to raising awareness about congenital heart disease. They're hoping more people will become organ donors.
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