Free life-saving trip provided to sick child in need of major heart surgery; family paying it forward [Video]

BIRDSBORO Pa – Three-and-a-half-year-old Islia is an all-around performer. Singing improv to opera. She is a happy little beauty full of life, but hidden behind her high energy is a serious health condition.

“Right now you would look at her and probably not know,” said her parents, Ashton and Victoria Stewart.

Their baby girl was born with a congenital heart defect.

“She has multiple holes in both chambers. Upper and lower chambers of her heart as well as a narrowing in her right lung,” said Victoria.

Islia is now in need of a major surgery.

“Nervous and anxious,” they said.

FOX 29’s Shawnette Wilson talked to the Birdsboro family, including Islia’s brothers Silous and Emyth, via a FaceTime their grandparents setup.

Islia is in quarantine to avoid getting sick before flying out to California for the surgery.

“If we put this off any longer, you will start seeing degradation like blue in the lips from …