Doctors in southern India completed a grueling 24-hour operation Wednesday on a girl born with four arms and four legs that surgeons said will give the 2-year-old a chance at a normal life. The surgery went "wonderfully well," said Dr. Sharan Patil, who led a team of more than 30 surgeons in the marathon procedure to remove Lakshmi's extra limbs, salvage her organs and rebuild her pelvis area.
"This girl can now lead as good a life as anyone else," Patil said from a hospital in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.
But he cautioned that Lakshmi was still not out of danger.
"We are still not ready to celebrate as she will be in the critical zone for the next 48 to 72 hours," the doctor said.
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2 comments:
Ya know Mo, this is truly a remarkable story in so many ways.
Reading that the doctors performed the $625,000 surgery for free, seeing the love given to her........all of it remarkable.
My ten year old has to do a weekly current event presentation in class.
Yesterday I showed her your post from yesterday and asked her if she wanted to use it for her current event. Now mind you, she is a VERY sensitive child and I thought she would definitely want to use it, but she turned to me and said, "No Mom, I wouldn't want to use this story because some of the children might laugh-especially the boys and that would make me really mad". But I told her to be firm and just say something if that happened, so she's going to use it for her next presentation.
Our creator has ways unknown to us, but just wanted to say to you Mo, thank you for posting and sharing this story about Lakshmi, because it truly is miraculous.
ur a cool mom robin :D
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