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ymarkovВот это - настоящая "русалка". As close as it gets.
A team of eight specialists in Peru successfully carried out a second operation on a two-year-old girl, known as the "Little Mermaid", to fully separate her legs and enable her to walk unassisted.
Milagros Cerron, whose first name means "miracles" in Spanish, was born with a rare congenital defect known as sirenomelia, or "mermaid syndrome," which left her legs connected from the heels to her groin.
Born with her legs fused to the ankles and her feet splayed, Milagros looked like one of the mythical mermaids before her operation.
In June 2005 doctors successfully performed risky surgery to separate her legs to above her knees.
The second operation was carried out to separate the remaining fused tissue just below the groin.
Surgeon Luis Rubio who led the specialists, said after the surgery: "There were no problems...no complications from anaethesia or from haemorraghing."
"I expect to be walking the streets of Lima holding her hand in December, which would be a Christmas gift for her family."
He said Milagros, affectionately called "the little mermaid" by Peruvians, had developed the ability to stand alone without help and take small assisted steps.
Wearing a red headband, red pants and a red T-shirt, she took shuffling steps holding onto Rubio's hand and blew kisses to photographers.
Rubio has said Tiffany Yorks, a 17-year-old American, was the only other person known to have undergone successful surgery to correct the rare congenital defect, which occurs in one out of every 70,000 births and is almost always fatal within days of birth.
The surgeon calculates Milagros will need at least 16 more operations in the next 10 years to reconstruct and repair her digestive, urinary and sexual organs.
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Date: 2006-09-12 06:54 pm (UTC)К сожаления, для меня вопрос остался открытым.
Проясните -
Date: 2006-09-12 09:19 pm (UTC)Re: Проясните -
Date: 2006-09-13 03:29 am (UTC)רשי ד"ה בני ימא
Боюсь, что даже ваш вариант, не совсем можно идентифицировать с этими сиренами.
Re: Проясните -
Date: 2006-09-13 02:10 pm (UTC)