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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 407017" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Apparently there are some very rare children who are born with part of their brain just missing! When I was a teenager I was very good friends with a girl who lived across the street from us. Her uncle had a little girl who was like this and since I spent a lot of time at their house, I saw her many times. She was about four at the time and a very pretty little girl. She had long dark curly hair and was always beautifully dressed and lovingly cared for by her parents. But she didn't even function as an infant. She had a functioning brain stem so she did the automatic things like breathing, but other than that, she was just a beautiful little empty shell of a child. She had no muscle tone at all, her eyes would open but she did not see. She did grow but she was much smaller than the normal four year old. I don't remember now if they could bottle feed her or if she was tube fed. Of course the doctors had recommend that she be institutionalized but the parents refused and devoted their lives to caring for her until she finally passed away when she was about 7 or 8. So very sad. But this is a very rare thing, and even more rare for such a child to survive as long as she did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 407017, member: 1883"] Apparently there are some very rare children who are born with part of their brain just missing! When I was a teenager I was very good friends with a girl who lived across the street from us. Her uncle had a little girl who was like this and since I spent a lot of time at their house, I saw her many times. She was about four at the time and a very pretty little girl. She had long dark curly hair and was always beautifully dressed and lovingly cared for by her parents. But she didn't even function as an infant. She had a functioning brain stem so she did the automatic things like breathing, but other than that, she was just a beautiful little empty shell of a child. She had no muscle tone at all, her eyes would open but she did not see. She did grow but she was much smaller than the normal four year old. I don't remember now if they could bottle feed her or if she was tube fed. Of course the doctors had recommend that she be institutionalized but the parents refused and devoted their lives to caring for her until she finally passed away when she was about 7 or 8. So very sad. But this is a very rare thing, and even more rare for such a child to survive as long as she did. [/QUOTE]
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