The last two years have been a struggle for the Mark and Rachel Sazama family of St. Paul, but they have prevailed and their son, Elliot, is now a lively, healthy two-year-old. Elliot was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome…He had his first open heart surgery at five-days-old, a heart catharization at five months, and his second open heart surgery at six months…Those procedures kept Elliot alive, but he needed a heart transplant to survive. On January 14th, 2014, at eighteen-months-old, Elliot received a heart transplant. He has zero rejection of the heart… the Sazamas have gone from knowing nothing about the disease, to being spokesmen for the condition… As part of the effort and to help the American Heart Association, the Sazama family was at St. Paul Public School last Wednesday to kick off their Jump Rope for Heart campaign.