The little girl on top had the most beautiful hair! She was always happy and always calm (at least when we were visiting the ward!) She was a little less smiley the day after and day she went home- and so beautiful! The LITTLE boy in second row- was affectionately referred to by his mom as "Gordo"! He was 10 months and huge...and was always smiling (before the surgery- a little less right after surgery). His mom and the mom of the little guy in the yellow bib seemed to become friends since they were in the ward at same time and their babies had their cleft lip surgeries on same day! The moms and babies came over to where Jocelyn and I were doing speech therapy (a building around the corner from the ward and surgical center to say good-bye to us and let us take pictures. THE MOMS WERE SO HAPPY and how special to get to support each other through the surgery. The little boy in the lion bib had a cleft lip on both sides of the lip (called a bilateral cleft lip) so his immediate "after" has much more swelling. When the swelling goes down it will look all that much better! Great surgeries by Dr. Williams and 2 other plastic surgeons from Lima who helped. Also present in OR team were 2 anesthesiologists- one from Lima and one from Oaxaca Mexico. All the babies, children and adults did well post-op.
50 CHILDREN SCREENED FOR SURGERY OR SPEECH THERAPY
25 SURGERIES, including cleft lip repair, cleft palate repairs, secondary palate surgeries-for speech improvement; and 5 burn cases, and one tongue clip (for tongue tie).
15 speech only screenings and 12 seen for speech therapy.
(I think that's the total on speech... I have to check our notes!)
more soon,
Theresa
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