![]() She was transferred to Cleveland Clinic for special care. When Fiona was born a month early at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, she weighed in at 5 pounds, 9 ounces. They discovered, however, that the baby’s heart was leaning to the right, rather than to the left. ![]() “But everything looked fine with her heart when we had a pediatric echocardiogram at 26 weeks,” Julie said. Julie O’Neill was 18 weeks pregnant when an ultrasound caused her obstetrician concern about possible heart defects. “Pieces of her bowel had been removed because it was twisted and part of its blood supply was cut off,” he said. “Fiona was born with her organs turned around.” When Radhakrishnan first saw Fiona at 4 days old, she’d already had surgery. Kadakkal Radhakrishnan, a Cleveland Clinic pediatric gastroenterologist who explained her condition in simple terms. ![]() “She’s a little fighter,” said Fiona’s physician, Dr. However, thanks largely to the July transplant of a portion of her mother Julie’s liver, Fiona now weighs a healthier 13 pounds - a 4-pound gain since that procedure. “She’s had a dozen surgeries,” said her dad, Michael O’Neill, of Concord Township. It’s been touch and go for Fiona since she was born - with transposed organs - and many of her early days have been spent in the hospital. Her journey to her first birthday has been anything but easy. Lots of folks will be celebrating when little Fiona O’Neill turns a year old on Sunday. ![]()
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