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10th August 2017
09:14pm BST

"He's doing great. Young Billy made his first visit to our office today. He's juggling. He's translating Flaubert from French into English. He's really an amazing kid. No. He smiles. That's pretty much it."https://www.instagram.com/p/BW0keD7l3MY/?hl=en&taken-by=jimmykimmel Kimmel explained his son's heart condition back in May on the opening segment of his talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live. He told The Hollywood Reporter why he thinks it's important to be open about what his family, and others around America, are going through.
"I had a lot of time to think at the hospital, and it just so happened that our government was deciding whether or not millions of people should have health care at that time. I think it made a big impact on American citizens."Billy was diagnosed with a heart disease at birth. Kimmel explained that the particular condition meant that his son's pulmonary valve was entirely blocked and that he had a hole in the wall between the left and right sides of his heart. Billy will have to have more surgeries after this first one in order to combat this issue. Kimmel said that the second open heart surgery will probably take place over the next few months, and the final one will occur when his son is grown up - "sometime maybe in his early teens to replace the valve he has now." The dad-of-four has thanked fans on Instagram for all of their "love and support."
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