From CBS Evening News: Surrounded by friends and family at his birthday party this week, 10-year-old True Beethe of Omaha, Nebraska, was on cloud nine, but his bliss had not come easy.
Back in 2022, at the age of 5, True needed a heart procedure for a serious congenital heart defect known as hypoplastic right heart syndrome.
He was under the care of social services at the time. On the day of the surgery, for an unknown reason, he was just dropped off at Children’s Nebraska, an Omaha children’s hospital.
Anesthesiologist Dr. Amy Beethe found him in pre-operative care.
“He was just sitting there all alone,” Beethe told CBS News. “No adult with him at all.”
Beethe explained that throughout the 7-hour surgery, she just kept staring at the sweet face of the little boy who had no parents or stable home life.
Despite that she and her husband already had six children, Beethe decided she wanted to adopt the boy.
“After I dropped True off in recovery, I called my husband and I just said, ‘We need to have a talk when we get home. I need you to have an open mind,'” she said.
The story gets even better from there.
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