( 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 . Judge Michael Baylson granted a temporary injunction and ordered U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to direct the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to waive in Javier 's case a policy that keeps children younger than 12 from being prioritized for available adult lung transplants . Martinez ' son , Jovan , died in 2009 at 11 . Javier also has cystic fibrosis . The ruling came the same day the judge granted an injunction for 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan , whose parents ' push for an organ transplant policy change has thrust the issue of who gets donated organs into the national spotlight . Sarah also needs a lung transplant . Martinez said she was `` excited '' after hearing the news of the the ruling in Javier 's case . `` I felt it was a triumph on our side because it allows these children to have an opportunity to be considered for adult lungs , which they need badly , instead of just waiting it out , '' she said . `` We do n't know what tomorrow brings . '' According to Murnaghan and Martinez 's attorney , Stephen Harvey , the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network is expected to consider Monday evening the families ' requests that the `` Under 12 '' rule -- which places children under age 12 at the bottom of the organ allocation list -- be struck down . Currently , it is estimated that 16 or fewer children nationwide are in the same position as Sarah and Javier , Harvey said . If the rule is not struck down , a formal court hearing on the matter is scheduled for June 14 . `` If Javi does not receive this transplant , he will die , '' Martinez said . `` Like any parent , I 'm inclined to do whatever it takes , to help Javier have a normal life , whatever that may be . ''
FIRST ON CNN : mother of sick boy moves out . A judge decides her son , 11 , should be eligible for adult ##ery . Milagros ##a feels a sense of ` ` triumph '' Ruling comes a week after a similar ruling for year - old Sarah Martinez .