# @ucsfchildrens on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DR5i8ksDH9M
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37670141-ucsfchildrens-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-05T22:50:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UCSF Benioff Children’s (@ucsfchildrens) — https://gondola.cc/ucsfchildrens

## Caption

Please congratulate Leslie — she's doing great and living life to the fullest after three open-heart surgeries as a child! 
As a newborn in 1990, Leslie went to the doctor with flu-like symptoms. Her pediatrician believed there might be a hole in her heart and sent the family to our Oakland hospital, where our team diagnosed her with multiple congenital heart defects, including a #VentricularSeptalDefect, #AtrialSeptalDefect and a complete atrioventricular canal defect. 
She had three heart surgeries with us as a baby, toddler and young child to correct the defects. Since her surgeries, Leslie has been doing great! 
“I had such good surgeons,” she says. 
Leslie loves hiking, paddle-boarding and enjoying the outdoors with her husband, an aerial firefighter for calfire. She also serves on the Patient and Family Advisory Board of the Adult Congenital Heart Association (acha_heart): “My passion is advocating for people like me.” 
#chdwarrior #chdaware

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## Tags

atrialseptaldefect, chdaware, ventricularseptaldefect, chdwarrior

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