“Blue Baby” Born with Severe Heart Defects Thrives Over 65 Years

The morning after her heart catheterization at Cleveland Clinic, 24-year-old Dorinda Bush Jones got a visit from her physician, a trailblazing open-heart surgeon named Dr. Donald B. Effler.

“He stopped at the foot of my bed, wiggled my left big toe and said to me, ‘Now go have your babies,’” Dorinda says. “My heart was singing.”

That procedure, performed to lessen the risk of complications and heart strain during any subsequent pregnancies, took place in 1970. It was 13 years after Dorinda became one of the first patients to undergo what was then called “stopped heart” surgery by Dr. Effler.

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