An Infection Almost Took Her Life, But 2 Months After A Heart Transplant She's All Smiles

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An Infection Almost Took Her Life, But 2 Months After A Heart Transplant She's All Smiles

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One thankful family of four is back home, and well, with their two-year-old daughter. It has been less than two months since little Kinsley Keeling received a life-saving heart transplant at a local Atlanta Children's Hospital.

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When Kinsley was just 10 days old, she contracted a virus, that because of her lack of immune system, spread through her body and began aggressively attacking her heart. Kinsley was given medication that helped her heart for her first two years of life, but a few months ago the medication stopped working and she had to be admitted to hospital. She had to be hooked up to a machine that kept her heart beating while they anxiously waited for a potential donor match.

On July 31st, 2017, the phone finally rang, they had found a donor. A family had just lost a young child and had decided to donate the heart so that Kinsley could live.

"I felt incredible sadness for that amazing family, that had made an overwhelming and amazing choice in the face of their darkest hour, to donate a heart to our child," Keeling told Fox 5 Atlanta.

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Just one week after undergoing a successful heart transplant, Kinsley was released from hospital. Though she is home and happy (her family is also beyond ecstatic), she is still required to take daily medication to ensure that her body doesn't reject her new heart.

"There is still a lot of unknown, about what her adult life will look like," Keeling told Fox 5 Atlanta. "But we're overjoyed that she's here. She's playing."