Juni
Juni’s family is part of a Mennonite community in the municipality of Andrés Ibañez near Santa Cruz. Juni has had a tough life so far – she was born with DORV, a rare heart defect in which both of the “great vessels”, the pulmonary artery and the aortic, connect to the right cardiac ventricle. She also lost her leg as a toddler in a farm accident. Despite everything, Juni is a happy child, and her parents are confident she will do well. Doctors performed both a diagnostic catheterization procedure and open-heart surgery to reroute her aortic artery. She went home after a week at INCOR.