After multiple open heart surgeries, 10-year-old Montreal boy ready to hit Grade Six running
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After four open heart surgeries, 10-year-old Samih Angelo Alame is thriving and ready to hit Grade Six running.
Ten-year-old Samih Angelo Alame is thriving and doesn't miss a beat.
"I like tennis, so I have a tennis racket. I do karate, I have my belt," he says.
However, it was a long road to get to this point.
Twenty-five weeks into her pregnancy, Samih Angelo's mother, Rebecca-Ann Belmonte, learned her son had a heart condition that would require open heart surgery as a newborn.
"It was clear that he would be he would be needing the Fontan procedure, which is a three-step open heart surgery over the space of four years, more or less," said Belmonte.
Following his first surgery, the Alame family lived at the Montreal Children's Hospital for over three months.
"It's hard to see your child hooked up to all these machines, you know, because after an open heart surgery, he's just hooked up to all of these machines," said his mother. "So he was very, very strong and pulled through all of the other challenges that came in the weeks that followed."
