Girl with huge cheeks save plastic (PHOTO)

Girl with abnormally large cheeks can be saved by surgeons. The child is already preparing for the most difficult plastic surgery.

The four-year Kathy Renfro suffers a rare genetic disorder called macrocephaly , Which is why some areas of the face she grew abnormally. In addition, little has removed a part of the brain to save her from the many seizures that before the operation took place at intervals up to 50 times per day.

The problems in the fetus, doctors noticed even during the first trimester by ultrasound. In three and a half months of a child's scans showed the presence of an excessively large head - three times larger than the norm. Then parents and reported macrocephaly But farmers from provincial American Paxton had no idea what it is. From abortion dad and mom Katie refused for religious reasons, and the girl was born by caesarean section. Even then, her cheeks looked like two ripe grapefruit.

With age, they grew even stronger, and the language Cathy does not fit in your mouth. Despite all these problems, the child still strives to enjoy life. After removing the parts of the brain and stop seizures are now left to clean up the girl's face. It glances of passers-by, and comments from other children for her right now is the worst.

Recently, the family Renfro left on their own bus to the city of Hollywood, is located in Florida, where Memorial Hospital surgeons are going to hold the first of seven planned plastic surgery on the face of Katie. During the procedure, the doctor will reduce the amount of her cheeks, straightened his ears, cut language. Once the excess weight from the face is removed, the child is able to move normally. "I do not regret that I did not then have an abortion - said the mother Kathy, from which grow seven other children. - If God gives you something you can not throw it."

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