Proud of his brave grandson, a grandfather has honored the little boy’s open heart surgery by tattooing the surgical scar on his arm. The tattoo and the precious bond they share have gone viral.
Rebekah Van Scoy and her husband, Taylor, have three kids together: Sawyer, 5, Adalyn, 3, and Hudson, 1. Sawyer was born with a congenital heart defect Tetralogy of Fallot. His parents didn’t find out about it until the day after Sawyer’s birth when doctors told them their baby had a heart murmur and rushed him to the NICU where he was monitored for a few days.
Sawyer with his grandfather when he got the tattoo. (Courtesy of Rebekah Van Scoy)
“He had his first procedure at five weeks old, a valvoplasty that opened his arteries to get more oxygen,” Rebekah told The Epoch Times….