Construction workers outside Cleveland hospital wave every day to girl waiting for new heart

Описание: Every afternoon around 3 o'clock, a group of construction workers makes one final stop before heading home: They climb to a floor of the building next door to Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, and wave.

On the other side of the glass, 4-year-old Brinley Wyczalek is waiting for them.

Brinley was born healthy, but at age 2, doctors discovered her heart had become severely weakened following a combination of viruses. She was admitted to Cleveland Clinic Children's on Halloween night and has been there for more than 110 days.

A Berlin Heart — a ventricular assist device — is keeping her alive while she waits for a donor heart.

"It's been a long time," says Brinley's mother Berlyn.

The connection began one evening in January, when 26-year-old union carpenter Devan Nail noticed something from across the construction site.

"From across the window, I (had) seen a glare," Nail said. "And then I saw that it was someone waving their phone light."

Nail, who works for OCP Contractors on Cleveland Clinic's new Neurological Institute next door, decided to do something.

"'I'm just going to make a "get well soon" sign out of some broken ceiling tile,'" he remembers telling himself. "And once I did that, I kind of just waved by, put the sign there, and walked away."

About 15 minutes later, a sign came back.

"From their room, it stated, 'Thank you. Waiting for a heart,'" Nail said. "That really kind of tore me up inside."

Lindsay Buckingham reports: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/com...