Tuesday, November 16, 2004
The Girl in the Mirror
Brenna's gray-blue eyes bulge beyond their bony orbits. Her nose, cheeks and upper lip look deflated. Her lower jaw juts far forward, giving her a smile like a friendly snowplow.
Her teeth don't line up to chew; she mashes the popcorn between her tongue and the roof of her mouth, her lips puckering like an old lady with her dentures out. Her nose is too constricted to draw air; her raspy mouth breathing competes with the movie soundtrack.
The sunken face is textbook Crouzon Syndrome....
A glitch in Brenna's genes stunted the growth of her skull and facial bones. Repeated skull surgeries have saved her life.
Tomorrow's radical face surgery will help her live it.
See also Part 2: Suspended in a cage and
Part 3: The shape of things to come
Brenna's gray-blue eyes bulge beyond their bony orbits. Her nose, cheeks and upper lip look deflated. Her lower jaw juts far forward, giving her a smile like a friendly snowplow.
Her teeth don't line up to chew; she mashes the popcorn between her tongue and the roof of her mouth, her lips puckering like an old lady with her dentures out. Her nose is too constricted to draw air; her raspy mouth breathing competes with the movie soundtrack.
The sunken face is textbook Crouzon Syndrome....
A glitch in Brenna's genes stunted the growth of her skull and facial bones. Repeated skull surgeries have saved her life.
Tomorrow's radical face surgery will help her live it.
See also Part 2: Suspended in a cage and
Part 3: The shape of things to come
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