Jimmy Kimmel shared on social media that his son underwent a 3rd open coronary heart surgical procedure over the Memorial Day Weekend.
The late-night discuss present host devoted a message to his son, household, and everybody concerned in Billy’s surgical procedure.
“This weekend, our boy Billy had his third (of three, we hope) open coronary heart surgical procedure,” Kimmel shared on Instagram. “We went into this expertise with a number of optimism and almost as a lot concern and got here out with a brand new valve inside a cheerful, wholesome child.”
The Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! host praised the staff at Youngsters’s Hospital Los Angeles, the place his son Billy was handled.
“Strolling round this hospital, assembly dad and mom at their most susceptible, kids in ache and the miracle staff who do the whole lot of their appreciable energy to save lots of them is a humbling expertise,” Kimmel wrote. “We hope you by no means want CHLA, however when you do – know that they assist households no matter their capability to pay, thanks largely to the Reasonably priced Care Act (one other salute to the late Senator John McCain), beneficiant donations from corporations like Disney, which I’m proud to work for and particularly from beneficiant individuals such as you.”
The comic additionally thanked the “loving strangers who took time to wish for and ship constructive power to our child,” and in addition had some phrases for his household.
“Thanks to my spouse Molly for being stronger than is affordable for any Mother to be and Billy, you’re the hardest (and funniest) 7 year-old we all know,” he added. “There are such a lot of dad and mom and kids who aren’t lucky sufficient to go residence after 5 days.”