Basta, 8, of Downingtown, was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy late last year. It had been a waiting game for her and her family as she was on a list to receive a new heart. She is the daughter of Joe Basta, formerly of Kingston, who attended Wyoming Valley West High School and King’s College.
Josie’s aunt, Holly Devenney of Chester Springs, said with the evacuation of the Wyoming Valley, she and Josie’s father’s parents, who live near Kirby Park in Kingston, were worried not about their possessions that were held in the balance of the flood waters, but about their ailing grandchild.
“My parents called me at work and said ‘We are being evacuated.’ I was shocked because I wasn’t paying attention to what was going on (with the rising waters).”
Doctors at Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., a specialty hospital where Josie is staying, recommended a lifesaving heart transplant. Josie had been on The Berlin Heart Pump, which helped keep her failing heart working.
“My parents were being evacuated from the Wyoming Valley on Thursday (Sept. 9) worried that they might lose their home and possessions again like in 1972,” said Devenney. “They received the best news in the world. My brother, Joe, called to tell them that a heart was available for Josie. At 3:45 a.m. Friday morning, her new heart began to beat in its new home.
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