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11-29-2006, 09:33 AM | #1 | |
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November 29, 2006: Girl's face disfigured by 16 pound tumor
Marlie Casseus was living a normal life in Haiti at age 3: And then something went wrong. A tumor started growing on the inside of her face, and by age 14 she looked like the above. This Chicago Trib story explains: Quote:
The International Kids Fund found her and brought her to Miami, where she is undergoing a series of surgeries to correct the situation. It takes a long time to go from a face full of 16-pound tumor, to a more normal look. But she's getting there. After the fourth surgery. Her mom is overjoyed. The operation not only makes her look better, but has saved her life. At her worst moments, she could barely eat or breathe, and Haitian docs didn't exactly understand the situation and had left her for dead. At lot of Haitians thought it was something satanic. Here is her page at the International Kids Fund, and if you are sufficiently moved by the story, there is a donate link. |
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11-29-2006, 09:37 AM | #2 |
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I think I would have gotten that looked at when it got to about 5 lbs. But that's just me.
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11-29-2006, 10:18 AM | #3 | ||
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11-29-2006, 11:46 AM | #4 |
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Jeez, how tragic. I do hope they can restore her face without her looking too horribly scarred.
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11-29-2006, 12:10 PM | #5 |
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Sounds like the "doctors" in Haiti didn't even consider giving her a tracheotomy to help with breathing. I know Haiti is backwards, but you'd think they could have at least done that.
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11-29-2006, 09:38 AM | #6 |
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that first picture is maybe the craziest thing i have ever seen...
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11-29-2006, 10:10 AM | #7 |
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Wow, just when we think we've made progress in educating the world, something like this comes up.
It isn't like Haiti is so far removed from modern society or anything. I am always amazed at how deeply the superstitions still rule. Amazing, though, that this poor girl can even be saved. I wonder what that has done to her spinal development, having all that extra weight in her head. I wonder if she misses that tumor, after all, it has been with her for a very long time.
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11-29-2006, 12:40 PM | #8 | |
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11-29-2006, 01:03 PM | #9 |
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It's the only country I know of that still practices voodoo.
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11-29-2006, 08:58 PM | #10 | |
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And they don't just shake chicken bones at tumors. But show me a religion that practices surgery on osteosarcomas. |
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11-30-2006, 01:36 AM | #11 | |
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I was thinking more in terms of exposure to or knowledge of more developed countries rather than being in the outback or out-yonder somewhere. She finally got the surgery by her father seeing something on TV. What surprises me is that no even thought of this before! The faith that people have in the good God and evil Devil is not something I would dare mock. We already know we can make ourselves believe anything we want to believe, even to the point of making ourselves extremely ill or healing ourselves. Beyond that, well, I've seen enough to believe that there is more out there than we can sense -- good and evil. Still, what must it do to this girl's mind to have lived like this for most of her life? I just can't imagine the trauma of having her life change so radically. The tumor grew on her as the rest of her body grew, so she probably just adapted, but now she is completely different. She has so much to relearn . . . It hurts just to look at her . . .
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12-03-2006, 11:47 AM | #13 | |
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Now THAT is scary.
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11-29-2006, 11:45 AM | #14 |
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So they couldn't do anything? They just gave up after 5lbs? They couldn't take a polaroid or send a verbal description to the red cross? Thank God someone fixed this instead of shaking chicken bones at it.
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11-29-2006, 01:58 PM | #15 |
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I used to work with a guy from Haiti (he was the maintenance guy for a McDonald's). He was very excitable, both in good and bad senses.
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