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February 26, 2014 - Wendy Arnold, 17, sits on her hospital bed as Le Bonheur Children's Hospital registered nurse Susan Corey runs tests the day before having surgery to correct both an Atrial Septal defect and a ventricular septal defect. Arnold traveled from the small village of Double Head Cabbage near Belize City in Belize for the procedure to fix the holes in her heart. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)

February 26, 2014 - Wendy Arnold, 17, sits on her hospital bed as Le Bonheur Children's Hospital registered nurse Susan Corey runs tests the day before having surgery to correct both an Atrial Septal defect and a ventricular septal defect. Arnold traveled from the small village of Double Head Cabbage near Belize City in Belize for the procedure to fix the holes in her heart. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)