‘They’ve captured our hearts’: Construction workers outside Cleveland hospital wave every day to girl waiting for new heart

CLEVELAND — Every afternoon around 3 o’clock, a group of construction workers makes one final stop before heading home: They climb to a floor of the building next door to Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, and wave.

On the other side of the glass, 4-year-old Brinley Wyczalek is waiting for them.

Brinley was born healthy, but at age 2, doctors discovered her heart had become severely weakened following a combination of viruses. She was admitted to Cleveland Clinic Children’s on Halloween night and has been there for more than 110 days…

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