Description Growing up as a patient with congenital heart disease, Brandon Lane Phillips often felt alone.
Brandon\'s journey of hope found within the pages of When I Wished Upon a Star is a s.
And even though a need for a second open-heart surgery at the beginning of medical school threatened Brandon\'s dream of becoming a physician, he would ultimately be trained by the very physicians who had cared for him.
Brandon chose medicine as his profession because he greatly admired his childhood pediatric cardiologist.
Throughout his career, he would encounter other patients who felt alone and had questions about their own mortality.
Many times When Brandon would face a life experience big enough to shake his faith, an improbable experience would occur that would remind him of his wish and God\'s answer to his prayer.
There are several God-like coincidences that occur along Brandon\'s path of becoming a pediatric cardiologist.
After one of the show\'s stars told Brandon that God had a plan for his life, Brandon left the set that evening feeling that the trip had been orchestrated as an answer to his prayer.
Brandon had Wished to meet him because he envied his "perfect" fictional family.
Soon after, he received a wish to meet child actor Jeremy Miller From TV\'s Growing Pains.
At 11 years of age, he was so desperate to find answers that he asked God to show him that He loved him.
He longed to have the type of close relationship with his father that he saw on many of his favorite TV shows.
Brandon worried that his heart defect caused his parents\' divorce and questioned just how much his illness had affected his siblings since so much extra attention was devoted to him.
It is only natural to question one\'s mortality When open-heart surgery is what enabled you to survive childhood.
Like many congenital heart patients, he wondered if he would have a long life.
Brandon believed he would die young.
He knew no one else who had his heart condition and believed no one understood his condition.
Description Growing up as a patient with congenital heart disease, Brandon Lane Phillips often felt alone
