For Macomb Township’s Jason and Laura Kleinow, the excitement of expecting their first child turned into concern about halfway through the pregnancy. “When I was five months pregnant I had an anatomy scan. It showed that we were expecting a boy and I was told I had to come back a week later because there were complications with the pregnancy,” Laura Kleinow said.
She was working at Troy Beaumont Hospital in the cardiology department at the time and realized the seriousness of the matter when doctors consulted with each other prior to sharing their findings with the expectant parents.
“I prayed to God to give to me, rather than to Gage, whatever the issue was,” she added. The “issue” was a congenital heart condition called truncus arteriosus, a rare disorder that occurs in one out of nearly 16,000 live births. Truncus arteriosus means that Gage was born with one large blood vessel leading out of the heart, instead of two…