Stories
Dr. Bove and his passion for healing hearts has changed thousands of lives for the better throughout his 26-year career. Here are some of their stories.
Hi, my name is ELISYN. I would like to tell you how Mott and DR. BOVE have made my life POSSIBLE… …When we received Elisyn’s file from China she was termed inoperable. Dr. Bove consulted with us through e-mail regarding her health and what options we had. We
Read more →I was pregnant with twins and at 18 weeks I discovered I was having twin boys. But baby A had something wrong with his heart. I had many appointments to check his heart. He was originally diagnosed with HPLH. We read up on Mott and heart surgery
Read more →My son Evan was born without a pulmonary valve. Dr. Bove inserted a valve at birth and again two years ago at age 5. My son is gorgeous and healthy (he is in the top 90 percentile in height and weight). Without Dr. Bove’s care, I’m not
Read more →This is story is about my beautiful niece Shelby. She was born in October of 1993. When she came into this world everything seemed perfect about her. In the first couple of months of her precious life, it was diagnosed that she had a double inlet left
Read more →Our son, Trenton, was born with complex cyanotic congenital heart disease: dextrocardia, double outlet right ventricle, bilateral SVCs, total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR) to left SVC, incomplete Atrioventricular canal defect (AVC), transposition of the great arteries and pulmonary stenosis, as well as Heterotaxy syndrome with situs
Read more →Our son, Ian, was born with HLHS in Rochester, NY. Ian was flown to Michigan for surgery. Dr. Bove performed the first-stage surgery when Ian was only a week old. Ian had many complications following that first surgery…he was in kidney failure and needed dialysis, he hid
Read more →My son, Joseph, was born in November of 2003. Immediately it was clear that something was wrong. He could not breathe on his own and had fluid in his lungs. It took the doctors in Toledo five days to figure out what was wrong. Joseph was diagnosed
Read more →Our son, Tom, has hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and Dr. Bove did all three of his surgeries between the fall of 1999 and summer of 2001. I was diagnosed prenatally and was terrified. Within hours it seemed that one name kept coming up. Anyone we knew
Read more →Angelina, our daughter, has hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). Dr. Bove performed the three surgeries necessary to complete the Fontan circulation. Both before and after her surgeries, his calm manner and personality helped us to feel a sense of hope and peace. Dr. Bove is an extraordinary
Read more →Hi, my name is KASSANDRA. I would like to tell you how Mott and DR. BOVE have made my life POSSIBLE… …Thank you Dr.Bove for everything that you did for me 21 years ago. I am 25 now and living my life to the fullest. I am a chef now
Read more →Hi, my name is TYLER. I would like to tell you how Mott and DR. BOVE have made my life MUCH BETTER… …Tyler was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). He was diagnosed in utero. After some research, we discovered that Dr. Bove and Mott Children’s Hospital were
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