Aug 26, 2015 04:28 PM EDT (Photo : Getty) Even after surgery, Ivan’s doctor could not get the young boy to praise Jim Harbaugh or any other Wolverines personnel. Ivan Applin, a 10-year-old boy whose family lives in Toledo, Ohio, underwent a successful heart surgery to close holes that were messing up blood flow. Like Us on Facebook Going to the University of Michigan’s (UM) C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital for his surgery, Applin was skeptical. He was worried that doctors from the Ann Arbor hospital would turn his heart away from his beloved Ohio State Buckeyes. Laughing, Applin’s mother, Jennifer, told the UM Health Blog: “He asked if the Michigan doctors were going to make his heart love University of Michigan instead of Ohio State.” The blog indicated Dr. Ronald Grifka, a pediatric cardiologist at UM, assured the ardent Buckeyes fan that could not happen. Recently approved by the FDA, the surgery will eventually allow Applin to resume playing soccer, his favorite sport. According to the blog post, Applin was adopted from Russian and was born with atrial septal defect, which would cause his heart to enlarge as he got older. Enlarged hearts can increase a person’s chance of stroke. The surgery Dr…
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