{"id":10258,"date":"2023-11-04T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T04:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/missing-halloween-for-heart-surgery-neighbors-throw-early-trick-or-treat-surprise-for-4-year-old-girl\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T04:38:17","slug":"missing-halloween-for-heart-surgery-neighbors-throw-early-trick-or-treat-surprise-for-4-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/missing-halloween-for-heart-surgery-neighbors-throw-early-trick-or-treat-surprise-for-4-year-old-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Halloween for heart surgery: Neighbors throw early trick-or-treat surprise for 4-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Naz Hassan, a 4-year-old from Syria, was sad to learn that she would have to miss trick-or-treating due to a heart surgery procedure<\/u> the day before Halloween \u2014 but her community made sure she still got to experience the fun of what she calls her favorite holiday.<\/p>\n

Hassan was born with a very large hole between the ventricles of her heart, called a VSD (ventricular septal defect), according to her surgeon, Dr. Timothy Pettitt from Children\u2019s Hospital New Orleans<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Hassan came to the U.S. through the Louisiana chapter of the nonprofit The Heart Gift Foundation, which provides surgical and interventional services to international patients from countries that lack the resources to provide repairs for congenital heart disease.<\/p>\n

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The girl\u2019s open-heart surgery<\/u> was scheduled for Oct. 30.<\/p>\n

Halloween has always been Hassan\u2019s favorite holiday, according to her mother, Shiler Sido, so she was disappointed to miss it. The two were staying at the girl’s doctor\u2019s house while they awaited surgery.<\/p>\n

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Halloween has always been Hassan\u2019s favorite holiday, according to her mother \u2014 so she was sad to miss it this year.<\/span> (Shiler Sido)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

When word filtered out to the neighborhood that Hassan would have to miss Halloween, the community decided to throw her an early celebration<\/u>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Over 60 houses in the neighborhood participated in Hassan\u2019s very own trick-or-treat experience last weekend.<\/p>\n

“It meant a lot,” said Sido, the girl\u2019s mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We felt welcomed, and these unimaginably kind neighbors gave my daughter the chance to experience Halloween for the first time in her life. Our host family, plus the neighbors, made us feel happy and included.”<\/p>\n

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The four-year-old was born with a very large hole between the ventricles of her heart, called a VSD (ventricular septal defect), according to her surgeon, Dr. Timothy Pettitt from Children\u2019s Hospital New Orleans.<\/span> (Shiler Sido)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“This wonderful neighborhood drew a big smile on my daughter’s face, and for sure I won’t forget that,” she added. “We will carry those lovely moments forever.”<\/p>\n

Hassan\u2019s open-heart surgery, which took six hours on Monday, was a success.<\/p>\n

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“The first night was painful,” Sido said \u2014 but the day after surgery, Hassan is “doing very well.”<\/p>\n

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“We felt welcomed, and these unimaginably kind neighbors gave my daughter the chance to experience Halloween for the first time in her life,” Hassan’s mother said.<\/span> (Shiler Sido)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“She drank water, ate a little bit and talked to her father,” she told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“However, she misses Lily, our host family’s dog, and keeps saying she wants to go home to Lily.”<\/p>\n

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“This wonderful neighborhood drew a big smile on my daughter’s face \u2026 We will carry those lovely moments forever.”<\/p>\n

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Dr. Pettitt echoed that Hassan\u2019s heart surgery “went great.”<\/p>\n

The hole between the ventricles of the girl’s heart was closed with a patch of Gore-Tex, which is a thin plastic membrane, the doctor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“She also had a cleft, or split, in one of the leaflets of her mitral valve, which is the valve between the left atrium and ventricle,” he noted. “This was repaired by suturing the edges of the cleft together, which restored the normal function of the valve.”<\/p>\n

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Over 60 houses in the neighborhood participated in Naz Hassan\u2019s very own trick-or-treat experience last weekend.<\/span> (Shiler Sido)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Before the surgery, Hassan had to be put on the heart-lung bypass machine<\/u> so that her heart could be stopped, opened and repaired, the doctor said.<\/p>\n

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After the repair, she had “no residual defects” and left the operating room breathing on her own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Added Pettitt, “She has had an uneventful postoperative recovery and we expect her to be able to go home in a couple of days.”<\/p>\n

For more Health articles, visit <\/u><\/strong><\/i>www.foxnews.com\/health<\/u><\/strong><\/i>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

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Melissa Rudy is health editor and a member of the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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