Friday, February 3, 2012

6-organ transplant

A  9-year-old Maine girl is finally home from a Boston hospital. She is now very healthy, active and with high hopes. She has new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus. Her esophagus had to be replaced because it was being choked by a huge tumor.
Alannah lives at her family's farmhouse outside Portland. Alannah Shevenell said Thursday that "she's glad to be feeling well again and able to go sledding, make a snowman, work on her scrapbooks and give her grandmother a little good-humored sass". She also said the best part is just simply being back home.
It was 2008 when Alannah, who was then  5, began running a fever and losing weight while her stomach swelled. Doctors discovered the tumor that year and twice attempted to remove it. The tumor had spread from one organ to another. Alannah family was told their was only a 50 percent chance she'd live through the operation. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46245005/ns/today-today_health/

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