Miracle baby is on the mend
Published: January 29, 2005
Miracle baby Jordan Trimarchi’s parents got to look into his eyes yesterday for the first time since his lifesaving heart transplant.
“We arrived today and he was alert - eyes opened and moving around,” his father, Brooklyn lawyer Jeff Trimarchi, told the Daily News.
“They just started introducing food into his stomach through a tube. We hope tomorrow he will be taken off the ventilator and gastric tube. We’re taking it hour by hour.”
Jordan, the Trimarchis’ first child, was born Jan. 18 with a tumor in his heart, and doctors had to put him on a bypass machine while he waited for a transplant.
Against all odds, a donor organ came through at the last minute, and surgeons at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian transplanted the new heart Wednesday. The next 48 hours were critical - most complications, such as bleeding, happen then - but Jordan came through like a champ.
“We don’t expect any problems,” said cardiologist Linda Addonizio. She said the fact that he was so alert was a good sign. “He’s been looking around, giving us the eye - like, ‘What happened?’”
Jeff Trimarchi and his wife, Sadaf, also a lawyer, don’t know the identity of the baby whose heart now beats in Jordan’s chest.
The parents of that tragic child have chosen to remain anonymous, but the Trimarchis hope to meet them - and thank them - for their gift.
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