After a year on waiting list, MN teen gets heart transplant [Video]

ROCHESTER, Minn. (FOX 9) – Courage sometimes hides in small places. For the better part of six months, it’s been living in room 5-686 at St. Marys Hospital.  The name on the door and on the charts inside belongs to Aidden Tilly, a 14-year-old Minnesota boy with draining energy and endless hope.

This is the cardiac floor at the Mayo Clinic, a place where a team of medical superheroes that no Hollywood casting director could ever create, turn broken hearts into healing hearts.  Aidden Tilly was one of those with a broken heart.

“The left side of my heart is like, doesn’t, didn’t work,” said Aidden from inside his room.  “Keeping up with everybody was a little more difficult.”

Aidden was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition where the left side of his heart did not fully develop leaving him with only one fully pumping chamber.

“He was critically ill when I first met him,” …