Omaha, Nebraska — Surrounded by friends and family at his birthday party this week, 10-year-old True Beethe of Omaha, Nebraska, was on cloud nine, but his bliss had not come easy.
Back in 2022, at the age of 5, True needed a heart procedure for a serious congenital heart defect known as hypoplastic right heart syndrome.
He was under the care of social services at the time. On the day of the surgery, for an unknown reason, he was just dropped off at Children’s Nebraska, an Omaha children’s hospital…