Jimmy Kimmel thanks doctors and nurses for saving son's life on 5th birthday

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Jimmy Kimmel has thanked medical staff for "saving" his son Billy's life on his 5th birthday. The 54-year-old talk show host's boy underwent open-heart surgery for a rare congenital heart defect just days after he was born in April 2017, and every birthday Jimmy shares his gratitude to the doctors and nurses at Children's Hospital L.

A. and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for their life-saving care. The comedian captioned a sweet picture of Billy and a birthday cake on Instagram: "Happy 5th birthday to our little nut. "We are eternally grateful to the brilliant doctors and nurses at @ChildrensLA @CedarsSinai for saving Billy's life and to those of you whose donations, prayers and positive thoughts meant everything.

Please support families who need medical care. Link in bio. " The 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' star - who has Billy with wife Molly McNearney, with whom he also has seven-year-old daughter Jane - announced the news of his son's surgery on his talk show at the time, and said waiting for the operation to finish was "the longest three hours" of his life.

He said: "On Monday morning, Dr. Vaughn Starnes opened his chest and fixed one of the two defects in his heart. He went in there with a scalpel and did some kind of magic that I couldn't even begin to explain.