(CNN) -- Milagros Martinez endured losing one of her sons to cystic fibrosis before he could get a lung transplant. Now she's hoping her younger boy, Javier Acosta, 11, will get such an operation in time. "This is like watching movie that you've seen before and you want a different ending," Martinez told CNN on Saturday. "It's hard for me to tell my son 'you have to have faith and be hopeful, you know this is going to happen for you,' and inside knowing that chances are slim." A judge on Thursday made Javier, from Bronx, New York, more quickly eligible for adult lungs. The boy is hospitalized at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.FIRST ON CNN: Mother of sick boy speaks outA judge says her son, 11, should be eligible for adult lungsMilagros Martinez feels a sense of "triumph"Ruling comes a day after a similar ruling for 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan
"Like any parent, I'm inclined to do whatever it takes, to help _ have a normal life, whatever that may be."