Sunday, March 11, 2007
Hoping for a new face and new life - BBC News
Mesaidi has a facial cleft - a condition whereby the skull is not fully closed.
This has resulted in an encephalocele, where the brain protrudes through a hole in the skull.
In Mesaidi's case this hole is where her nose should be and has pushed her eyes apart. Her eyelid on one side is also affected.
But UK doctors hope an operation at the Cromwell Hospital in London this month can help make Mesaidi's life a little easier to bear.
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"I understand that her father's family disowned her after his death, and they are not in contact with Mesaidi.
"She told her mother that she doesn't like going out to town because of the way people look at her.
"People will stop whatever they are doing and stop to stare, some with sympathy, some with disbelief and some even with disgust.
"Her mother confided that at one time she overheard a woman saying that 'if I had given birth to such a child I would have thrown it away'. She says this comment hurt her deeply and she will never forget it.
...
A team, including five consultant surgeons and one consultant anaesthetist, all of whom have given their time free, expect the operation to last a whole day. ...
Mesaidi has a facial cleft - a condition whereby the skull is not fully closed.
This has resulted in an encephalocele, where the brain protrudes through a hole in the skull.
In Mesaidi's case this hole is where her nose should be and has pushed her eyes apart. Her eyelid on one side is also affected.
But UK doctors hope an operation at the Cromwell Hospital in London this month can help make Mesaidi's life a little easier to bear.
...
"I understand that her father's family disowned her after his death, and they are not in contact with Mesaidi.
"She told her mother that she doesn't like going out to town because of the way people look at her.
"People will stop whatever they are doing and stop to stare, some with sympathy, some with disbelief and some even with disgust.
"Her mother confided that at one time she overheard a woman saying that 'if I had given birth to such a child I would have thrown it away'. She says this comment hurt her deeply and she will never forget it.
...
A team, including five consultant surgeons and one consultant anaesthetist, all of whom have given their time free, expect the operation to last a whole day. ...
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