A kindhearted mother has given her toddler the gift of life this Thanksgiving - after donating one of her KIDNEYS. Jace Josephson, two, was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition in which means that side of the heart does not develop correctly. The brave toddler underwent two major heart operations before he was seven months old to insert shunts to help balance the blood flow. But Jace went into cardiac arrest ahead of his third surgery in August 2017 and doctors determined he would need a heart transplant to survive.