DRACUT — Jack Middlemiss is your typical third-grader. He likes baseball and watching the Red Sox, he plays Minecraft and Fortnite on his Nintendo Switch and he occasionally wrestles with his younger sister, Grace, at their Dracut home.
But in many ways, Jack is extraordinary. At only 9-and-a-half years old, he recently celebrated the fifth anniversary of his heart transplant.
While he now gets to play in the snow, travel with ease on family vacations — most recently to Lincoln, N.H. — and spend time with friends, it wasn’t always that easy.
“I couldn’t run a lot, I couldn’t play a lot,” Jack said of his pre-transplant life. “I don’t remember a lot before that.”