 Hi, my name is Maddie. I'm eight years old and what I want to be when I grow up is a gymnastics teacher Maddie had a condition in which her Pulmonary valve was very narrow Not only was it narrow it was Was badly formed at first it was really scary because when we first brought her home from the hospital She's her limbs will be blue all the time, and I was always panicking thinking the worst, but they're like, oh, no That's normal for her. I'm like normal You know, but um, I kind of did get to be normal because that's just the way it was initially Maddie required pulmonary valve loplacity. There's a procedure where we pass catheters into the heart Using specialized balloons to try to open up that narrowing I had to put a tooth this small into my heart to open up my valve And ultimately she required heart surgery to perform what we call a surgical valve otomy where the surgeon Uses a scalpel to open up the valve To allow blood to flow into the pulmonary arteries even though she has the heart condition With the help of you know, Dr. Gaskin and a team of heart surgeons. Nothing's gonna hold her back I feel like she can still do split a handstand a cartwheel a roll of flip