Henrico boy with heart defect raising awareness about hands-only CPR
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Like most nine-year-olds, Finn loves fun. Whether it's going for a swing in his backyard playground or playing with his pets, there’s not much that slows him down except sometimes his heart condition
"I was diagnosed with CHD, Congenital Heart Defect," Finn said. "Unlike normal kids I have a limit so I can’t really run around for that much longer."
"We had never heard of CHD, we had never even heard of open-heart surgery in a baby," said Finn's mother, Kelly Blumenthal. "That was something that was not even on our radar at all."
Blumenthal says she was first alerted to the life he may have before he was even born, almost a year after the birth of her first son who had no complications.
"We found out about the heart disease when I was 19 weeks pregnant," Blumenthal said. "They said he would have no chambers in his heart and abnormal connections surrounding his heart."
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