Mm hmm, you read it correctly. That’s outside.

While perusing Google News today, I noticed a story about a boy who was born with his heart outside his chest. Apparently it’s not a medical first, but it’s the first time I’ve heard anything like it. The boy, Naseem Hasni, was born on October 31 at the Holtz Children’s Hospital in Florida and recently, doctors were able to put his heart back into his body. He’s expected to live a physically normal childhood although he does not have a sternum, which is the part of the body that protects the heart. Doctors are planning on taking parts of Naseem’s ribs and placing it where the sternum would normally be so that at least he’s got some protection in that area.

If you’d like to read the entire article, check it out here

Remarkable story eh?