Naples teen defies odds after stroke following heart transplant surgery

A 15-year-old Naples boy who suffered a stroke just hours after receiving a life-saving heart transplant, woke up and started speaking just seconds after pulling life support according to his family.

Fox 4’s Eric Lovelace shows us Paxton’s miracle:

“He just cannot be held down”: Naples teen defies odds after stroke following heart transplant surgery

Paxton West’s family says he has battled heart problems his entire life, undergoing his first open-heart surgery at just 3 days old due to a congenital heart defect.

His mother, Jennie West, says she spent years preparing for the inevitable need for a heart transplant.

Paxton’s condition remained relatively stable until he collapsed at school one day, his mother said…

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