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Personal Narrative: My Surgery In Albania

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I was born with a single ventricle. The doctors in Albania, lacking modern technology, wrote off any chances that I could live a healthy normal life. However, my parents believed that I could live a robust life, so they sought opportunities overseas where I could have surgery. My parents were able to get in contact with a charity in Italy, in which my mom and I lived with a host family for three months. There I had the surgery that helped initially save my life but it wasn’t a lasting fix. Thankfully, my parents were able to get permanent visas for us to move to the United States, where I had surgery in the Children’s hospital in Boston. Ever since I’ve had the surgery, I’ve been in perfect health, proving the doctors in Albania who said I

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