An 11-year-old girl, born with a major malformation that prevented her from breathing and which risked severely handicapping her, was saved by a doctor from the Montreal Children’s Hospital and his team.
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Christina had a serious breathing problem when she was born because her trachea was blocked by a tumor that wasn’t cancerous.
“After several interventions, we were told that Christina’s condition was so serious that she could never speak. We practically had to make the decision whether we were going to keep her with us or let her go. She was less than a month old,” explains her mother, Frantzie Paul.
She remained in the hospital under close surveillance for almost three months after her birth. In total, Christina stayed a total of 895 days in hospital in a span of just 3 years.
His doctor then made him a tracheotomy, an incision in the neck with a cannula.
She lived with this modification until the age of eleven. It was last June that she finally underwent the major operation to reconstruct her trachea and completely remove the tumor.
“What had to be done was to take pieces of cartilage since several of his ribs were needed and to make a reconstruction using a mold to allow a new trachea to be made which is healthy. “, describes Dr. Sam Daniel, otolaryngologist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.