BAKERSFIELD, Calif. ( KGET ) — 5-year-old, Scarlett Grace Rodriguez, got a second chance at life with a new heart from a 6-year-old boy who lived two hours away.
Scarlett was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare defect where the left side of the heart is underdeveloped.
Her mother, Sugey Rodriguez said, “I just gave it up to God, and he was going to figure out how we were going to get through this stuff, but it’s a scary situation because she’s only three days old.”…