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Once-Disfigured Girl Attends Prom After 18 Surgeries
Fox News ^ | May 28, 2008 | Marrecca Fiore

Posted on 05/28/2008 3:26:08 PM PDT by AngieGal

Cody Hall was born with a hemangioma, a tumorous birthmark that distorted the shape of her face and grew larger as she got older.

When she was 1-year-old, her doctors in England told her parents that nothing could be done about her condition, so her parents took her to see surgeons in the U.S.

Fourteen years and 18 reconstructive surgeries later, most of them at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York, the girl who once had a hopelessly deformed face was flashing a beautiful smile at the prom.

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KEYWORDS: birthdefects; moralabsolutes; plasticsurgery; socializedmedicine
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To: AngieGal
Good for her mother for not accepting what Socialism was offering her poor little girl. Once again America is the land of opportunity, offering this young woman the opportunity for a normal life.
21 posted on 05/28/2008 3:49:11 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: LasVegasMac

yay!


22 posted on 05/28/2008 3:51:38 PM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: AngieGal

Thanks for posting this amazing story. Beautiful girl - takes after mom.


23 posted on 05/28/2008 3:52:40 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: AngieGal

Thank you for that inspirational story.

Maybe there are still miracles, one human being at a time.


24 posted on 05/28/2008 3:52:52 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: AngieGal

This is a miracle!!!!!!!!


25 posted on 05/28/2008 3:57:54 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: AngieGal

Wow! She looks terrific. I’ll bet she’s beautiful “inside” too, based upon all she’s been through. What a strong girl and dedicated family. What an inspiration. :)


26 posted on 05/28/2008 3:59:16 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: SolidWood
Yes, there is also use for plastic surgeons beside multiple breast-jobs and botox injections for aging millionaire wives.

The plastic surgeons I have known do the elective or vanity surgeries so they can take on the necessary ones at low or no cost.

27 posted on 05/28/2008 4:00:48 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.)
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To: AngieGal

The Brits pay for abortion if a disfigurement is discovered prior to birth ... bless the Lord, this beautiful girl made it before the push to avoid costly surgeries in the socialist island. [For those not familiar with this issue, cleft children are routinely aborted now in ‘England’.]


28 posted on 05/28/2008 4:03:22 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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This is a wonderful and heartwarming story!

29 posted on 05/28/2008 4:07:53 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: AngieGal

From another country with socialized medicine, all I can say is ‘G-d Bless America”. Wow and amen.


30 posted on 05/28/2008 4:16:39 PM PDT by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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To: AngieGal

Not to be a wet blanket, but I’m wondering who payed for the 18 surgeries in the US.


31 posted on 05/28/2008 4:24:05 PM PDT by Bob J
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To: Bob J

Ahh, says “mos tof the surgeries” were paid for with donations from the UK.


32 posted on 05/28/2008 4:25:58 PM PDT by Bob J
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To: AngieGal
Holy CATS what an improvement.

There are doctors in this nation worth every penny of the big dollars they earn. Someone with those skills thoroughly deserves whatever Bentley Continental they're driving around.

33 posted on 05/28/2008 4:27:41 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: LasVegasMac

Might remain a bit disfigured on her left. But look at that smile - in both her mouth and eyes you see someone who has decided to be pretty and to work for it.


34 posted on 05/28/2008 5:01:27 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and Ye shall find.)
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To: AngieGal

Wow. Praise Jesus!


35 posted on 05/28/2008 5:07:27 PM PDT by Tigercap (McCain. For Supreme Court judge nominations and WOT progress if nothing else.)
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To: SolidWood
I was told that socialized medicine in England was so superior to pesky US docs.

I'm sure the Cuban hospitals could have done it even better and for free! /s

36 posted on 05/28/2008 5:08:26 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: AngieGal

That is amazing. I”m speechless.


37 posted on 05/28/2008 5:11:08 PM PDT by SengirV
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To: AngieGal
Beautiful!
38 posted on 05/28/2008 5:11:48 PM PDT by cmsgop (I can't believe my wife downloaded "Philadelphia Freedom"on my iPod........)
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To: SolidWood
re:Yes, there is also use for plastic surgeons beside multiple breast-jobs and botox injections for aging millionaire wives.)))

If it weren't for vanity, the surgeons might never have had the training or experience (or leisure! I won't be surprised if the docs donated their services) to work this wonder.

Show me a lawyer who can claim a medal like this one.

39 posted on 05/28/2008 5:11:52 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: AngieGal

Good God gave this child’s mother a challenge, and she took it! She would not take “No” for an answer, and she did what she had to do for her child. God bless both of them, and the doctors who were there for them (and I don’t mean those socialist twits in the UK).


40 posted on 05/28/2008 5:16:16 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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