Heart surgery survivor Alivia Green earns Heart Hero award

By Julie Noyes
[email protected]
RANGELY | No one would guess by looking at spunky third-grader Alivia Green of Rangely that at two weeks of age she was diagnosed with Coarctation of the Aorta (CoA) and Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD). CoA is a narrowing of the aorta, the large blood vessel which branches off the heart and delivers oxygen-rich blood to the body. VSD is a hole in the part of the septum that separates the…