Greg Olsen posts daunting news regarding 8-year-old son TJ

Greg Olsen: In 2012, my wife and I found out we were pregnant with twins. We found out early in the pregnancy that T.J. was going to be born with a very complex, critical congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

They laid out what the future held for him in the immediate term, and it was scary. We were very conflicted on where to get our treatment and what was the best course of action for our family, for our son.

That led us right here – in our own backyard – to Levine Children’s Hospital. T.J. and his sister Talbot were born in October 2012, and T.J. underwent the first of what would become three open-heart surgeries and a few other heart procedures over the next two and a half years. We stand here today as parents of an almost 5-year-old boy who’s happy and relatively healthy. We have a lot to be thankful for – and a lot of that thanks starts here at Levine Children’s Hospital.