Salt Lake Tribune
January 22, 2008
Mike Patton Jr. remembers the agony he went through after learning his soon-to-be born daughter had a heart defect.
Brinley Patton’s heart was smaller than an almond when an ultrasound detected a problem just 22 weeks into Rebecca Patton’s pregnancy. “It’s kind of like being tied to the railroad tracks and the train is coming. I had never heard of a baby’s heart defect,” said Patton, of Riverton. “The feeling and emotion of the whole thing was one of loneliness and no support whatsoever.”
Today, Patton and Carolyn …