You usually hear these types of stories in the movies. Priyanka Kugamoorthy, a 23-year-old medical student from Toronto, had the pleasure of completing an observership with the doctor who saved her mother’s life over two decades ago, when she was pregnant with Priyanka.

“A Markham woman whose life was spared when a cardiologist saved her pregnant mother more than two decades ago spent the fall under that doctor’s instruction at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Priyanka Kugamoorthy, now a 23-year-old med student, was inspired to observe cardiologist Dr. Jack Colman at work after years of hearing her mother’s stories about the time Colman saved her life.

Priyanka, of course, can’t remember the 1991 balloon valvuloplasty that inflated her mother’s narrowing pulmonary valve relieving the strain on her heart and pregnancy. She hadn’t been born yet. But that procedure Colman performed allowed her mom Mangayatgarasi Kugamoorthy, who had congenital heart disease, to deliver her first child Priyanka a few months later….” Continue reading at the Toronto Star.

-Featured image sourced from the Toronto Star and taken by RICK MADONIK