Girl with heart failure calls dad with life-changing message after 200-day hospital stay

Girl with heart failure calls dad with life-changing message after 200-day hospital stay

Ava Cooper waited eight months for a heart transplant after her sinus infection led to heart failure

Ava Cooper spent more than 200 days at Cleveland Clinic waiting for a donor heart. (SWNS)

Cooper, born in 2014, had her first open-heart surgery when she was just 6 days old. (SWNS)

Sean Cooper is pictured with his daughter, Ava, who received a heart transplant. (SWNS)