Tiffany yorks

On May 7, 1988 a baby was born and the baby had Sirenomelia which is also called Mermaid syndrome. Tiffany Yorks was born with her legs fused so that they resembled the mermaids of folk lore. Tiffany was also born with a heart defect and ailing kidneys. The one thing she had was healthy lungs. She was transferred to the shriners hospital where she had two surgeries on her legs. In order to make skin for her legs once they were seperated, they used a technique using balloons placed under the skin and filled with saline solution. When the balloon stretched her skin stretched. This gave the team aditional skin to work with. ? http://search.intelius.com/Tiffany-Yorks/websites/frame?h=86af208d5c&title=Tiffany+Yorks%3A+ZoomInfo+Business+People+Information&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zoominfo.com%2Fpeople%2FYorks_Tiffany_99057401.aspx Tiffany's medical care was provided free at the Shriners Hospital, and this was many hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of surgery. She has also had surgery on her heart and urinary tract.http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.med/2005-06/msg00040.html

Babies that are born with this defect rarely make it out of the womb. The condition usually affects other vital organs which leads to death. Her healthy lungs were the one point that saved her life.http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.med/2005-06/msg00040.html Within 25 days after her birth the surgeries began and even thoguht the doctors had never heard of such a case of Sirenomelia surviving for long they performed the surgeries to give her a chance.http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.med/2005-06/msg00040.html http://search.intelius.com/Tiffany-Yorks/websites/frame?h=86af208d5c&title=Tiffany+Yorks%3A+ZoomInfo+Business+People+Information&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zoominfo.com%2Fpeople%2FYorks_Tiffany_99057401.aspx

Tiffany has survived longer than any other child with this syndrome. She walks with the aid of crutches yet she doesn’t let it slow her down. She is only one of two that have successfully had surgery to separate her limbs. Her bones are fragile and so she uses a wheel chair or crutches to keep them from injury.

There is a child in Peru that is facing the same situation and faced the surgery at nine months old. This baby, Milagros Cerron has survived the surgery that took place and two weeks after the surgery she took her first steps. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/62690/Miracle-of-the-Little-Mermaid.html

The surgery took place in June of 2005 and seperated the second section of her legs. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-407134/Mermaid-girl-takes-unaided-steps.html She still faces years of surgery but in 2006 she took her first steps. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-407134/Mermaid-girl-takes-unaided-steps.html