Theo Fry, a 9-month-old infant who has had 30 heart attacks and 17 surgeries, has resisted death even before becoming one year old. Theo was sent to Liverpool’s Alder Hey hospital with blood poisoning because, according to his mother, «everyone expected him to die.» He was eventually diagnosed with an interrupted aortic arch, which meant it had two holes in it and was not flowing blood throughout his body.

He had a heart attack and another one while in Alder Hey for three months. He then developed sepsis, beat it, and returned home in July 2017. But the struggle was far from over, as he was admitted to the hospital again with a dangerously high heart rate on December 21, and his heart stopped for 12 minutes. He experienced two more heart attacks before January 31, during which he had 25 cardiac arrests in 24 hours.

He was rushed to Salford Royal Hospital, where a team of 40 doctors were left baffled by his condition. Fauve and Theo’s father Steven Fry, 35, were told that Theo was critical and although medics didn’t know what was wrong with him, they told them that Theo had heart failure and needed an operation, or he would die On January 31 he was operated on by surgeon Dr Ramana Dhannapuneni and as the operation was on,he suffered a heart attack and again another one as he spent three months in Alder Hey.

He then developed sepsis, beat it, and returned home in July 2017. But the struggle was far from over, as he was admitted to the hospital again with a dangerously high heart rate on December 21, and his heart stopped for 12 minutes. He experienced two more heart attacks before January 31, during which he had 25 cardiac arrests in 24 hours.

‘He had 25 cardiac arrests in 24 hours,’ his mother explained. ‘It was horrific,’ she went on. He was getting hit after hit after hit. I realized he couldn’t take much more. Every time it happened, the nurses would summon the arrest team. He had the most buzzers pressed overnight in intensive care that anyone can recall.’ «Oh my god, please don’t let this be his last breath,» she screamed as she watched the resuscitation team perform each chest compression on him.

Dr. Ramana operated on him and, despite not expecting him to survive, did so since Theo would die if the treatment was not performed. Dr. Ramana stated that the procedure was dangerous and discovered that Theo’s left ventricle was covered with scar tissue, so he opened the ventricle and Theo was much better and able to leave the hospital. ‘Everyone who sees him exclaims how happy he is,’ his mother adds.

‘What he’s been through is tremendous. He’s quite powerful.’ ‘Theo experienced the highest arrests in 24 hours that I have heard of,’ said Dr Ramana Dhannapuneni. We had to act quickly because he wouldn’t have survived much longer.’It was quite dangerous. It may have turned out either way. But he made it, and his recovery was incredible. The transformation in him is astounding.’