We Raised an Abandoned Little Boy – Years Later, He Froze When He Saw Who Was Standing Beside My Wife
I have spent my entire life repairing damaged hearts, cutting carefully, stitching precisely, trusting science and steady hands. But nothing in all my years as a pediatric surgeon prepared me for the day I met a six-year-old boy named Owen. Owen was so small in that oversized hospital bed that he looked like he might disappear into the sheets. His skin was pale, almost translucent, and his eyes were far too big for his thin face. When I opened his chart, my chest tightened. Congenital heart defect. Critical. The kind