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Milagros Cerron, the "mermaid girl", is one of only three known cases of surviving children with the condition.
NBC News
Milagros Cerron, the little girl in Peru known as the “mermaid baby”, is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.
Martin Mejia / AP
Peruvian doctor Luis Rubio play with nine-month-old Milagros Cerron in a public hospital in Lima, Peru, before the 2005 surgery that successfully separated her fused legs.
Seven-year-old Milagros survived sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome -- a rare, usually lethal congenital malformation that fused her legs – but now needs surgery to reconstruct her urinary tract. The defect occurs in one out of every 70,000 pregnancies and there are only a three known cases of children with the condition alive in the world. Sironemelia is associated with kidney failure and gastrointestinal defects. An American girl Shiloh Pepin, who was born with sironemelia, died in 2009 at age 10.
In 2005, when Milagros, whose name means miracles in Spanish, was nine-months-old, doctors began the first of three operations to separate her legs. Surgeons, plastic surgeons, pediatricians and cardiologists all participated in the surgeries.
Now her father, Ricardo Cerron, is asking for help for his daughter, who has been undergoing dialysis three times a day for the last three years. He hopes she can have the operation in the U.S.
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Give this living doll a kidney! She has overcome so much and she has a rough road ahead. But my money is on Milagros. She is tough! hang in there cutie!
Her name is Milagros cerron. You would think that in this world of "political correctness" and all of this bull@!$%# of never being able to offend anybody or hurt peoples feelings and stuff like that. why does the media keep referring to this adorable little girl as "mermaid girl". does the media not have a cute little retarded boy to call "Retard boy" or anything like that. or how bout a woman that wants free birth control, you could call her a "slut". What? already been done? damn lol cmon now, i actually love offending people simply because it is too easy. and fun too. But cmon this is a little girl with a severe disability and life threatening to boot. Have some @!$%#ing decency. Oh and by the way, try and find out how to get this guy money directly if at all possible if you want to donate to help. wouldnt want to line the pockets of a greedy charity ceo now. where about 10% of the money you give might just have a chance of making it to the family.
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simply put-4281296
Her name is Milagros cerron. You would think that in this world of "political correctness" and all of this bull@!$%# of never being able to offend anybody or hurt peoples feelings and stuff like that. why does the media keep referring to this adorable little girl as "mermaid girl". does the media not have a cute little retarded boy to call "Retard boy" or anything like that.
Yes. And while we're at it, "In 2005, when Milagros, whose name means miracles in Spanish, was nine-months-old," should be "... was nine months old". Putting the hyphens in makes the phrase an adjective. You could say "nine-month-old Milagros". Also, "An American girl Shiloh Pepin, who was born with sironemelia... " is dreadfully worded and punctuated. How about "Shiloh Pepin, an American girl who was born with sirenomelia...". (Do read the article about Shiloh. She had a brief life but I'm glad her family and friends had her for those ten years.)
Having said that, I wish the article offered a way for readers to offer the help Milagros' father has asked for. She's a precious girl who deserves every chance.
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simply put-4281296
Her name is Milagros cerron. You would think that in this world of "political correctness" and all of this bull@!$%# of never being able to offend anybody or hurt peoples feelings and stuff like that. why does the media keep referring to this adorable little girl as "mermaid girl". does the media not have a cute little retarded boy to call "Retard boy" or anything like that.
Yes. And while we're at it, "In 2005, when Milagros, whose name means miracles in Spanish, was nine-months-old," should be "... was nine months old". Putting the hyphens in makes the phrase an adjective. You could say "nine-month-old Milagros". Also, "An American girl Shiloh Pepin, who was born with sironemelia... " is dreadfully worded and punctuated. How about "Shiloh Pepin, an American girl who was born with sirenomelia...". (Do read the article about Shiloh. She had a brief life but I'm glad her family and friends had her for those ten years.)
Having said that, I wish the article offered a way for readers to offer the help Milagros' father has asked for. She's a precious girl who deserves every chance.
I hope this darling little girl can be helped. She's been through so much already. I know there are loads of generous people, and doctors who are giving and caring. It's a plea like this that touches the hearts of people. Who among us wouldn't do the same if it were our child? I'm rooting for the best possible outcome.
The father is asking for help, what kind of help, how can we help?