 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. Three-year-old Huck Frazier returned last week after undergoing a potentially life-saving surgery for congenital heart defect. Thursday, we spoke with mother Lindsey Frazier about Huck's journey and progress following the surgery. He's doing great. It is so exciting to see him begin to thrive already in just a short amount of time. We knew that he needed this surgery, but we didn't realize how important it would be or how much his heart condition was affecting his body. Now, even just three weeks almost after his surgery, he's smiling more. He's trying to talk to us more. He's playing. He's trying to play with his little brother. Those are all things that he didn't feel like doing before. Anytime we get a head cold or our nose gets stopped up, we know how we feel and you just feel miserable. His oxygen was that low all the time. To know that he's feeling better and to see now, even though we hate to see him have to go through something so invasive, it's making it worth it and I cannot wait to see where we go from here. Since Huck's return, Frazier says they've noticed physical progress, such as changes in his activity and blood circulation. Before, we were so used to just seeing Huck with his bluish tone to his skin, so his lips would be a dusky, purple-y blue color. His fingernails were purple-y blue. His toes and his feet stayed pretty blue, but now he has pink fleshed skin and pretty pink lips and pink fingernails just like we do and it's so exciting to see what this new normal looks like for him because that's something that we've never seen before. We take small things like that for granted with our children, but it's definitely exciting to see and then he's able to, he's already been outside and trying to play a little bit and he's able, prior to his surgery, he could only walk maybe 50 feet before he wanted someone to carry him to go see Nana and Papua out behind our house, but in the past couple of days when the weather's been nice, he's been out walking up small hills in our driveway. So that's definitely something that we're excited about and something he loves to do and he finally can do that. Lastly, as Huck continues to improve, Frazier hopes other families see his progress and are inspired as they are not alone. I would just say to others if you're not alone, congenital heart defects again affect about one in 100 children so it's more prevalent around than what we realize. My younger child was born with a heart defect, but his was one that was able to heal on its own and thankfully didn't require any medical treatments, but to other families I would just say don't give up their fighters and we call them heart warriors for a reason. He's got plenty of battle scars and we certainly can see the fight in him and can't wait to see what's in his future because we know he doesn't give up easily. For Mountain Top News, I'm Jol Corjol.