This is Carter. He’s like any other 7-year-old, apart from him having an innately heart disease.
A couple of weeks ago he went through with his 12th heart surgery.
”Carter removed his bandage this morning. He cried for 45 minutes when he saw his scars. He said that he was scared that people would think that he’s ugly”, dad Mark Gentle wrote on Facebook.
”It’s tough to hear as a parent. We told him that his scars are beautiful and tried to make him feel like a superhero”, the dad continued.
He posted a picture of Carter and thought that a couple of his friends would like the picture. So Mark and his wife Sarah was shocked when the hundreds of people became thousands – and later millions.
Carter could hear the sound from his dad’s phone when person after person liked the picture. “Dad, is that for me?”, he asked over and over again.
“His scars is what makes him who he is. He’s showing everyone it’s possible to overcome anything and that he was stronger than the disease who tried to kill him”, his dad Mark writes.
And I think that we all can agree on the fact that little Carter is a real fighter and a role model. Scars are nothing to be ashamed of!