This little girl...
Feb. 13th, 2009 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
synnoveaevaelHas more balls than anyone I've ever met.
Real Life Little Mermaid
Shiloh Pepin will turn 8 years old on Saturday, against all odds, against all reason and against what doctors told her parents the day she was born.
Shiloh was born with sirenomelia, a disorder also known as Mermaid Syndrome. The vast majority of fetuses with sirenomelia never make it to full-term. Of those that do — and scientists say their numbers are only in the hundreds throughout the world and throughout history — almost all die within hours of birth.
Real Life Little Mermaid
You can donate to this little girl! Donate!
I totally did. /sap. <3
ETA: 09/30/10
Apparently she passed away from complications of pneumonia shortly after this. October 23, 2009 :(
Real Life Little Mermaid
Shiloh Pepin will turn 8 years old on Saturday, against all odds, against all reason and against what doctors told her parents the day she was born.
Shiloh was born with sirenomelia, a disorder also known as Mermaid Syndrome. The vast majority of fetuses with sirenomelia never make it to full-term. Of those that do — and scientists say their numbers are only in the hundreds throughout the world and throughout history — almost all die within hours of birth.
Real Life Little Mermaid
You can donate to this little girl! Donate!
I totally did. /sap. <3
ETA: 09/30/10
Apparently she passed away from complications of pneumonia shortly after this. October 23, 2009 :(
