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What really struck me was all the other kiddos who are having their own battles, and some of them are more severe than ours, and I said,
'why don't we do a fundraiser to help the whole center as best we can?'

Zach Martin (at far left), who with his wife, Mallika Padmanabhan (far right), raised more than $5,000 through crowdfunding in gratitude for their son's care at the Pediatric Heart Center at M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital