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Kathleen Vaughan Candelario

Boston Helps Man With Congenital Heart Defect Get Life-Saving Procedure Boston Helps Man With Congenital Heart Defect Get Life-Saving Procedure
Boston Helps Man With Congenital Heart Defect Get Life-Saving Procedure February is American Heart Month, and some Bostonians are celebrating by donating to help a young man who is undergoing an experimental, life-saving heart procedure.  Cole Cand was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, a defect which affects blood flow through the heart because the left side of the heart was not formed properly, according to a GoFundMe created to raise money for his treatment.  Doctors warned Cand's parents that he could only make it a few hours, or overnight, when he was young. Despite his early prognosis, he has lived to be 26 years old, although he has been in "inh…