Comments (3)Jack is the youngest person to have been on an artifical heart for so long A baby boy who survived a record 120 days connected to an artificial heart outside his body has come home from hospital. In March, doctors told eight-month-old Jack Vellam's parents he was so ill from an inflammation of the heart muscle that there was nothing more they could do for him. Reluctantly, the couple agreed to turn off their son's life-support machine. They said their goodbyes and had him christened. But five hours later, Danielle Hastings, 18, and Terry Vellam, 21, changed their...