Here's a heartwarming story

[pegkerr]

I'm a sucker for stories like this, about a doctor treating Gong Lu, a Chinese orphan with a rare condition called hemangioma — a malformation of her nose. Take the time to watch the video, it's over on the side. Cute spunky kid; hope she gets the shot at the better life she's hoping for.

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[aome.livejournal.com]

There are so many kids like that, many of whom receive their preliminary treatments in China (ie repaired cleft lip or spina bifida surgery), or who still need them (heart valve surgery or other sorts of treatment), or who have minor issues like missing fingers or something, but have full normal lives ahead of them after that. However, because they are 'flawed', they aren't so easily adopted unless the family indicates up front that they're open to a child with "minor or moderate correctable medical conditions". Will and I have considered adopting such an older child someday ... but we're not sure we could really handle it, financially (not just the adoption, but putting three kids through music lessons/gymnastics/karate/whatever and through college) and emotionally (to have time for everyone!) So, it might just end up being yet another dream to let go of eventually.

[carbonel]

I saw (but didn't hear) a piece about her while I was at the gym this morning. The "before" videos looked just like one of the gnomes in The Silver Chair. The "after" ones looked scarred but normal-sized, but I did wonder if the repaired nose would grow in proportion to her face.

Unfortunately, your link crashes my copy of IE.