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My name is Curtis French. I am ten years old. I was born with a heart condition called Dextrocardia Corrected LTransposition with Sub-Pulmonary Stenosis. In other words my heart is backwards.

On July 5, 2011 I went to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh for a procedure to close a inch diameter holebetween my hearts upper chambers. I had been experiencing a 30% oxygen loss because of the hole. The

operation went fine, but before we left the hospital the next day the x-ray showed that the device they implanted

through the catheter had fallen out of the hole and passed through the valve from the upper chamber to the lower

chamber of my heart.

A team of doctors and nurses rushed me in to emergency open heart surgery to remove the device before it caused

a much worse problem. After a 4 hour operation they had removed the device and closed the hole with part of theouter lining of my heart. Three days after the second operation I was able to go home to recover. During my

recovery I couldn't ride my bike or quad. I was really sad and bored, but that is when I came up with the idea to

have a charity festival for the Heart Institute at Children's Hospital. I asked my dad and we started putting theplans together. Some really nice people at the Conway Sportsmen's Club agreed to let us use the club and we

decided to have the event on September 1, 2012.

We are having bands, games, Chinese auction, a real tattoo artist, air brush tattoos and lots of food and fun. Weneed lots of help to make this happen so anything you can give or do to help would be really appreciated. All of

the money raised will go to help the wonderful people that helped me and most importantly the kids like me that

need help from the Heart Institute at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Thank you so much!

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CURTS HEART FESTCharity festival to benefit

Date: September 1, 2012

Time: 2 10 pm

Where: Conway Sportsmans Club, 100 Magill Rd in Zelienople, PA 16063

Entertainment to include; live music from 2 Mile Ditch, Eugene and the NightCrawlers, Jordon Robb & Matt French, and Several bands from Davis School ofGuitar Performance Curt is in one of these) other bands to be announced, tat-too artist, airbrush tattoo artist, and balloon art, fire juggling

We are selling tickets for $20.00. Ticket price includes a meal and musical entertain-ment. (Food will be supplied by Fairground Market) Also, Pizza Joe's in Portersville isdonating some pizza.

There is a pond on the property for fishing. There will also be a Chinese auction and50/50 Raffle.

Please bring a non perishable food item or travel size toiletry for the Ronald McDonald

House. We were very grateful to be able to stay there and use their facilities. Wewould like to give back to them also.

Please contact Gabe 724-421-5455 or Pam 724-290-3535 for tickets.

All proceeds benefit Children's Hospital Heart InstituteFor updates like us on facebook under:

Curts Heart Fest