“The operation was a success,” he said. “It was the longest three hours of my life.”
Both of the happy new parents could not be more grateful or relieved that their son is alive and as healthy as he can be with the heart disease he was born with.
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Jimmy closed his monologue by urging viewers to donate to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, so that other babies will have the same chance at life as Billy did, saying, “If your baby is going to die—and it doesn’t have to—it shouldn’t matter how much money you make.”
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