Article updated: 8/3/2012 4:40 PM

Lombard boy back home and having fun after heart transplant

Article
Comments
Photos (6)

Buy this photo Buy this photo

next prev 3 of 6

Christine Grobart of Lombard holds her 5-year-old son, Tim, who has been home for about a week after a successful heart transplant June 20.

Bev Horne | Staff Photographer

Heart transplant recipient Tim Grobart, 5, plays with his 8-year-old brother, Lou, at the family's Lombard home. Tim returned home from the hospital July 26 and has been more active than usual since receiving his new heart.

Bev Horne | Staff Photographer

Tim Grobart, 5, of Lombard, plays outside Friday with his 18-month-old sister Rosie. Tim, who was diagnosed with a rare heart defect at 4 months old, underwent the first heart transplant at the new Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago.

Bev Horne | Staff Photographer

Heart transplant recipient Tim Grobart, 5, of Lombard, is now back at home and playing video games after a the successful surgery.

Bev Horne | Staff Photographer

Christine Grobart is glad to have her 5-year-old son. Tim, back at the family's Lombard home.

Bev Horne | Staff Photographer

Playing with light sabers and applying temporary tattoos, like the lightning bolt on his arm, has all been part of the fun for 5-year-old heart transplant recipient Tim Grobart of Lombard since returning home from the hospital July 26.

Bev Horne | Staff Photographer

About this Article

At 5 years old and a month removed from a heart transplant, Tim Grobart's days are filled with running around the house, building Legos or playfully battling his 8-year-old brother, Lou, with plastic light sabers and toy guns.A week after Tim left the hospital, his father says the childhood chaos and sibling warfare waging at the family's Lomard home is "blissful" compared with the past couple months of hospital stays, tests and the transplant itself.