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Tue 3 Jan, 2006 10:08 pm
Story has an amazing photo of this girl. Hard to believe that this could happen.
16-pound growth being removed from teen's face
Associated Press
Dec. 14, 2005 02:47 PM
MIAMI - A 14-year-old Haitian girl underwent a rare operation Wednesday to remove much of a 16-pound tumor-like growth on her face that all but obliterated her features.
Nearly a dozen specialists were taking part in the up-to-14-hour operation on Marlie Casseus at Holtz Children's Hospital. It was the first of many operations she will have to undergo.........
16-pound growth being removed from teen's face
Wow, how can she breath at all - or eat? It doesn't even look like she has an opening through her mouth......
Wow, that surgery happened in mid-december and there's nothing on the google news site since then.
According to the article, the growth was going to have serious impacts. I'm wondering how she made it to now.
Wow. I'm having a hard time banishing that image from my brain. Trying to remember there's a girl in there -- glad for her that something is being done about it.
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