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A 16-year-old British girl who was born with a misshapen face and enlarged tongue that prevented her from even talking now has a photo album's worth of her smiling face at her senior prom thanks to the generosity of strangers.
Katie Meehan, from the Fellgate area of Jarrow, in South Tyneside, England, was born with cystic hygroma, a condition in which fluid forms a mass on the head and neck, according to her local newspaper, the Shields Gazette.
The condition was so severe, the paper reported, that Meehan was left with cysts in her mouth and doctors told her family their daughter would never be able to speak. With that in mind, the Gazette launched a fundraising campaign in 2000 to give the family the funds needed for surgeries to reduce swelling in Meehan's mouth and tongue and allow her to live a more comfortable life.
That single appeal resulted in more than $90,000 in contributions from Meehan's neighbors and friends, as well as complete strangers. It also drew the attention of Ian Jackson, who agreed to operate on Meehan.- feel good story of the dayCALLES
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- it is a good story, but to be honest, i cant help but feel it should be the moral obligation of doctors to help people like thisautoflavour
- this, regardless of their ability to pay the fee..autoflavour