On a recent warm afternoon, Endrit Zhushi climbed into a Little Tykes foot-powered car and turned the front yard of the Gerard Family’s cozy Natick home into his own personal highway.
The blonde, blue-eyed child bumped through the grass and driveway going forward and backward, only stopping occasionally to get out and kick a ball around.
It’s a level of energy typical for a 4-year-old, but weeks ago such nonstop activity would have been unimaginable. That was before his pediatric cardiac surgery.
Endrit and his mother Behrije Zhushi came to Natick from Kosovo through the efforts of Natick Rotary and Gift of Life New England, Inc., a Rotary organization that helps children in need in the United States and abroad receive open-heart surgery. They returned to Kosovo Thursday
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