Katja de Groot becomes one of 40 children worldwide to get a partial heart transplant through “domino surgery.”
MALTBY, Wash. — At a table in her family’s home, 9-year-old Katja de Groot reaches into the box for dominoes that she lines up perfectly on the table.
Her mother Jennifer encourages her with a smile that belies the extraordinary journey her daughter has just completed. “Is the first domino you, and this is all of the things we went through all summer to get to the place we are now?” she asks, pointing to the carefully arranged pieces.
But life doesn’t play out in a
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