article_snippet: Jack Stevens, from Hartlepool, County Durham, has spent half of Jack Stevens life in hospital after having four open heart surgeries and five other operations.
article_snippet: Jack Stevens has also suffered a stroke and  had to be resuscitated three times.
article_snippet: Jack Stevens underwent four open heart surgeries at just one week old .
article_snippet: Jack Stevens survived a total of nine operations (Jack Stevens is pictured, left, after the last procedure), but then suffered a stroke and had to be resuscitated three times.
article_snippet: Jack Stevens recovered well from five other operations and has recently had Jack Stevens feeding tube removed for the first time.
article_snippet: Jack Stevens is pictured here before Jack Stevens third open heart surgery procedure.
article_snippet: We knew about Jack Stevens condition before Jack Stevens was born and Jack Stevens spent the first five months of Jack Stevens life in hospital. '
article_snippet: Jack Stevens had to have open heart surgery when Jack Stevens was just one-week-old and Jack Stevens's had three more since. '
article_snippet: It was really difficult watching Jack Stevens lying in Jack Stevens hospital bed for so long surrounded by machines and tubes. '
article_snippet: The family are pictured before Jack Stevens's fourth open heart surgery .
article_snippet: Jack Stevens had to be given up to 12 different medications up to four times a day, but now only needs three different medications via a syringe.
article_snippet: At just one-week-old, Jack Stevens underwent three stages of the Norwood procedure - a surgery performed on the heart to improve blood flow.
article_snippet: Jack Stevens was eventually allowed home for the first time in April last year but returned back to Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, three months later after suffering a stroke.
article_snippet: Jack Stevens life but surgeons don't know when yet. '
article_snippet: Jack Stevens had to be given up to 12 different medications up to four times a day but Jack Stevens only needs three different medications via a syringe at the moment. '
article_snippet: Jack Stevens's also had Jack Stevens feeding tube removed for the very first time last month which is fantastic.
highlights_snippet: Jack Stevens then suffered a stroke and had to be resuscitated three times .
  