A young Ohio girl’s prayers were answered when doctors told her she would be receiving a new heart after waiting more than 200 days in the hospital for a transplant, as she broke the life-changing news to her father.

“Daddy, I’m getting a heart,” Ava Cooper, 11, said.

Ava was born with multiple severe heart defects, including a hole in the heart, reversed chambers, a misplaced heart, and a blocked pulmonary valve, according to the Cleveland Clinic on Wednesday. 5

She underwent her first heart surgery at just six days old and, by the time she was five, Ava had endured another four open-heart surgeries.

After that last surgery, she went on to spend the next five years without any trouble. However, in the summer of 2024, she began to get sick again, her mother Jamie said.

“I was n

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