00:00I can't believe it's already been two years since we met Tate.
00:03He's a young boy born with only half a heart.
00:05Take a look.
00:06Hi, Tate.
00:07It's your girlfriend, Ellen.
00:09It's so cute.
00:11Hi, Tate.
00:12I'll tell you something, Tate.
00:14You're my only boyfriend.
00:17I love you, too, Tate.
00:21I love you too, Tate.
00:23Come sit with me.
00:30I'll do it all, I'll hold every second of this work in me.
00:38Finding Dory comes out June 17, 2016.
00:41And you need to get better, because you're
00:45going to be my VIP guest at that premiere, OK?
00:50Thank you so much.
00:51Oh, you're welcome, Tate.
00:54I love you.
00:56Please welcome back my boyfriend, Tate Anderson,
00:58and his mom, Tate.
01:10Hi, Tate.
01:11Where'd you go?
01:11Hi, Ellen.
01:12Hi, Tate.
01:13So you're wearing, tell everybody what this is.
01:15You're wearing a backpack.
01:16What's in there?
01:17My meds.
01:18Your meds.
01:20Your meds, right?
01:21What's he got?
01:21What does your meds do?
01:23Pump my heart.
01:24They pump his heart.
01:26Oh.
01:26Well, that's important.
01:27That's really good, you have your meds on.
01:31How are you feeling, Tate?
01:33I'm feeling better.
01:35Yeah, you're feeling better?
01:36Yeah.
01:37I'm glad.
01:37I'm glad you're here.
01:38How is he feeling?
01:39How's he doing?
01:40Tate is, Tate, Tate, he's doing great.
01:43I mean, he's struggling, but he's just so positive,
01:46and he keeps going.
01:48And he'll tell you, he just, he keeps swimming.
01:50And that's, that's what we do.
01:52You just keep swimming?
01:54Yeah.
01:54You just keep swimming.
01:59I'll tell you what's amazing is that now,
02:02this is really good news.
02:03He is at the top of the heart transplant list, right?
02:07Number one.
02:08Number one.
02:11You're number one on the list.
02:13Yeah!
02:14Yeah!
02:16Yeah!
02:16Woo!
02:16Woo!
02:18Woo!
02:20I mean, we've been waiting to hear that for a long time.
02:23Yeah, yeah, we are number one, being the next,
02:27we have a pager that's with us, we have a phone call.
02:30I mean, the moment we get it, we're going the right size
02:33and the right age of Tate's donor, and it's, it's Taters.
02:36There's no waiting.
02:37We're, we're going.
02:38Nope, that's right.
02:39That's why I'm surprised that you could even be here.
02:41Did the doctors, is that okay?
02:43Yeah, with a lot of persuasion from Tate and us.
02:47I mean, they, they have noticed that when Tate struggles,
02:51you have always seemed to like come in and give him the boost
02:54that he needs to keep going.
02:56And so they told us that where he was struggling so much,
03:00they really felt that this would just give him the boost
03:02that he needed to keep going because once transplant happens,
03:05I mean, it's, it's a long haul from here.
03:08And he, they felt that his quality of life would be so much better.
03:12And I mean, how do we thank you for giving him that to keep swimming?
03:17Like, that's something that as a mom, like, I can never thank you enough for
03:21because he keeps going through everything.
03:23And it's you.
03:24You're with him every day through everything.
03:26Well, listen.
03:37You're just working the crowd, aren't you?
03:39You're just, I thought I was your only girlfriend.
03:41What's happening?
03:43Well, it's.
03:44You're going to get a new heart.
03:47You're going to get a new heart.
03:48That's what I'm saying.
03:55Let me tell you something right now.
03:56There aren't too many people I've met that have a heart as good as yours
03:59that you have right now.
04:00You have an amazing heart.
04:02You're an amazing guy.
04:03But if you want to get another heart, that's okay with me.
04:07So here's, here's what I want to do.
04:09You got to have this backpack with you.
04:10I want you to have a different backpack to carry around.
04:13Okay?
04:14So I got you a customized.
04:15Yay!
04:16What?
04:17That's my Ellen!
04:19Yeah, you want that?
04:20Okay.
04:21Yay!
04:22You can swipe it, please.
04:24All right.
04:25I'm going to give you, there's going to be an iPad.
04:27Because last time I gave you an iPad with a bunch of clips from season.
04:31That's mine?
04:32That's your, yes.
04:32And look, what else?
04:33This is season 12 clips.
04:35And then you have the Finding Nemo on there to watch.
04:37Yay!
04:37And then we're going to go when Finding Dory comes out.
04:40You're my date for Finding Dory.
04:41That comes out in a year.
04:43Yeah!
04:43Okay?
04:44And, and our friends at Shutterfly have loved helping your family the past two years.
04:50And they want to continue to support you with this check for $10,000.
04:55Okay?
04:59And now you have that.
05:03I see it, Shannon!
05:05Isn't that amazing?
