West Virginia boy with birth defect lived out Home Alone 2 adventures during visit to NYC
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A first-grader from West Virginia recently visited NYC to fulfill his wish and live like Kevin in his favorite movie, 'Home Alone 2: Lost in New York'. Gabriel Lee suffers from hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Lee and his family visited New York the week before Christmas, and he reported that he "loved" having the experiences he recently had in New York City.
Lee was given the trip as part of Make-A-Wish after Shepherd University announced its campaign to make Lee’s wish come true. Lee was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which is a birth defect that affects normal blow flow through the heart.
"It essentially means the left side of his heart didn’t form," Lee’s mom, Morgan, said in a press release previously. "You can survive with one pumping chamber, but in order to do that, they have to do a three-phase reconstructive surgery. They essentially make a new chamber, so they’re replumbing their entire anatomy."