KGO TV | Karina Rusk
PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) -- This is the time of year for graduations and while it is a significant milestone for high school seniors and their families. It's especially gratifying for a Palo Alto teenager who received a life saving heart transplant just months ago at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
This ceremony is not just a celebration of academic achievement, for 17-year-old William Wylie-Modro, this walk marks a milestone in an extraordinary medical journey. The high school senior was born with a congenital heart defect that sent him to the hospital in April.
"I'd say within two weeks I would have been on like life support machine. I'd say within... probably last week I would have been dead," said Wylie-Modro.
In May, a donor heart saved William's life, but just six days after that risky operation doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford also had to perform brain surgery to remove an unexpected blood clot. Now, just weeks later, William's parents are in the front row as he receives his high school diploma.
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