Jimmy Kimmel’s son Billy is recovering from his third open-heart surgical procedure.
The late-night speak present host revealed on Memorial Day that the 7-year-old wanted a brand new valve, which his staff of surgeons efficiently changed on the Youngsters’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
“We went into this experience with a lot of optimism and nearly as much fear and came out with a new valve inside a happy, healthy kid,” Kimmel captioned an Instagram picture of his son smiling in his hospital mattress.
“Walking around this hospital, meeting parents at their most vulnerable, children in pain and the miracle workers who do everything in their considerable power to save them is a humbling experience.”
The comic, 56, ended his emotional tribute thanking “those loving strangers” who prayed for his and his spouse Molly McNearney’s son and their household and buddies for “rallying round us to an almost-ridiculous extent.
“Thank you to my wife Molly for being stronger than is reasonable for any Mom to be and Billy, you are the toughest (and funniest) 7 year-old we know,” he concluded.
Kimmel revealed in Might 2017 that Billy had been born with a treatable diseased coronary heart and instantly underwent his first surgical procedure.
“The operation was a success,” Kimmel mentioned on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “It was the longest three hours of my life — but it was a success.”
Billy underwent a second open-heart surgical procedure in December 2017, and this third operation is meant to be the ultimate one the younger boy ought to want.
Kimmel and McNearney, 46, additionally share 9-year-old daughter Jane. The Oscar host can also be dad to daughter Katie, 32, and son Kevin, 30, whom he shares together with his first spouse, Gina Maddy.
