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Jimmy Kimmel Feels ‘So Blessed’ After 7-Year-Old Son’s Successful Open-Heart Surgery: ‘All The Matters’

Jimmy Kimmel gained a new perspective and is feeling ‘so blessed’ after his 7-year-old son's successful open heart surgery, sources exclusively tell In Touch.

We went into this experience with a lot of optimism and nearly as much fear and came out with a new valve inside a happy, healthy kid,” Jimmy wrote on Instagram alongside a sweet photo of Billy smiling from a hospital bed. While he’s close to his adult kids — Katie is an artist, while Kevin works as a production assistant in the entertainment industry — life was different when they were young. The four-time Academy Awards host knows not everyone has access to the medical care Billy has received — he’s personally thanked the doctors and nurses by name who have helped them over the years on his talk show and on social media, asking followers for donations to children’s hospitals.

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