Surviving A Serious Heart Condition

A Savannah family makes educating you about Heart Disease their mission.

By: Tina Tyus-Shaw | WSAV-TV
Published: January 27, 2010

(Savannah) 8-year- old Emily Tramell is living her life and loving it. "I have fun reading, and writing, and writing stories and jumping rope."
Her parents are grateful she's alive. You see -soon after birth they would begin an emotional journey. "Doctors found she had a VSD which is a Ventricular Septal Defect which is a hole in the heart.” Lisa and Chris Tramell couldn't believe what they were hearing. "Very anxious, very nervous, just pretty much devastated at the news. Just not anything we were expecting," says Lisa. Surgery would soon follow. " Her heart was as they would say loud. You could hear the murmur. If you touched her chest you could feel it you know beating. It was a different harder beating against the chest wall."
Emily survived the first surgery, but at 4 and a half she was back in the hospital for a second operation. "Within 72 hours she was home and happy and healthy and has done wonderful ever since." With every jump Emily is proof that congenital heart disease doesn't have to defeat life.
And she's thankful to all who jump for heart. "Because they're jump roping for me and they're jump roping for other kids who have heart problems or heart surgery like me."

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