Wyatt was born with the same form of dwarfism as his mom Lacey but experienced a medical issue she never imagined. At 18 months old, he developed a cold that wouldn’t go away. They had a doctor's appointment scheduled, but both Wyatt’s dad, Thomas, and Lacey had a bad gut feeling. They stopped at our North Campus and found Wyatt wasn’t getting enough oxygen. After transport to our Anschutz Medical Campus, our experts found many respiratory viruses were attacking his lungs and causing his heart to go into overdrive. We intubated Wyatt and he went into cardiac arrest. Our experts put him on a machine that provides temporary support to his heart and lungs while Wyatt fought for his life. “We were in a state of shock,” Lacey and Thomas say. Wyatt went to the PICU and saw teams across the hospital in orthopedics, breathing, heart and ear, nose and throat. They found that Wyatt had pulmonary hypertension, which affects blood pressure in his arteries. With dwarfism, his short stature and s...