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Jimmy Kimmel is celebrating his youngest son’s profitable coronary heart surgical procedure.
The late-night speak present host shared the information on social media on Monday.
“This weekend, our boy Billy had his third (of three, we hope) open coronary heart surgical procedure,” Kimmel captioned the picture of Billy, 7, in a hospital mattress. “We went into this expertise with a variety of optimism and practically as a lot concern and got here out with a brand new valve inside a cheerful, wholesome child.”
Kimmel added, “Strolling round this hospital, assembly dad and mom at their most weak, youngsters in ache and the miracle employees who do every thing of their appreciable energy to avoid wasting them is a humbling expertise” and thanked a number of members of the hospital workers by identify.
He additionally paid tribute to his “spouse Molly for being stronger than is affordable for any Mother to be and Billy, you’re the hardest (and funniest) 7 year-old we all know.”
Kimmel made headlines in 2017 when he emotionally throughout a 13-minute lengthy monologue on his present that Billy was affected by a critical coronary heart situation, a problem found simply hours after the kid’s delivery.
“It’s a terrifying factor,” Kimmel mentioned on the time, his voice breaking. “You recognize, my spouse is again within the restoration room, she has no concept what’s occurring and I’m standing in the course of a variety of apprehensive wanting folks – form of like proper now – who have been attempting to determine what the issue is.”
Since his experiences along with his son, Kimmel has been a vocal advocate for well being protection for folks with pre-existing circumstances and for the work of youngsters’s hospitals.
“There are such a lot of dad and mom and kids who aren’t lucky sufficient to go house after 5 days,” he wrote in his submit on Monday. “Please share your love, hearts and prayers with them and if it strikes you, assist @ChildrensLA (hyperlink in bio) or a terrific youngsters’s hospital close to you (@CMNHospitals).”