Miracle baby’s home
Published: February 13, 2005
Little Jordan Trimarchi - the odds-defying baby who survived an extremely delicate heart transplant when he was just 8 days old - slept soundly inside his Brooklyn home for the first time yesterday.
It was a sight his parents had feared they’d never see.
“Three weeks ago today, we learned he definitely needed a heart transplant,” said Jordan’s joyous father, Jeff Trimarchi, 31.
“We came home from the hospital to this empty bassinet [on Jan. 18], thinking we would never be able to put him inside,” he said. “Finally, seeing him asleep in this bassinet was a big moment for us.”
Earlier in the day, Trimarchi and his wife, Sadaf, 32, thanked Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian and the public for their support.
With tears in her eyes, Sadaf Trimarchi read from a journal she kept about Jordan’s journey.
“You are my miracle baby,” she read. “Your story has touched so many people. I know there must be a reason this happened to you and us.”
Jordan’s amazing tale began 18 hours after he was born at NYU Downtown Hospital. Surgeons found Jordan’s heart was irreparably damaged and told his parents he’d die if he didn’t have a transplant by Jan. 26.
A donor heart became available just in the nick of time - and Jordan went under the knife.
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