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Rob and Mindy Seay had been told that their baby, Lincoln, had about six weeks to live. He had just undergone cardiac arrest, and doctors at Seattle Children’s expanded his catheter. The hope: That Lincoln would receive a heart transplant before it was too late.

Six weeks came and went.

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Those days “were the toughest,” Rob Seay said in an interview. “His color became purple. … That’s when true despair started to set in.”

“We both knew it: He was out of time,” Mindy Seay said. “He was declining to the point where he wouldn’t wake up for very long.”

Then, on Feb. 18, three days after the six-week estimate passed, the couple from Alaska was told that a donor match had been found.

Seven-month-old Lincoln would receive a new heart.

“He was right on the edge,” Michael McMullan, Seattle Children’s surgical director of heart transplantation, told the Seattle Times. “We have a list of patients and he was the one we were most concerned about.”