Lily's Story

Here is Lily Anna's story as we learned from the orphanage doctors:

Lily was born on March 14, 2009. She was carried to term but delivered by C-section because she was breech. Her weight at birth was 8.6 pounds and her height was 20.5 inches. 

She was immediately hospitalized and diagnosed with Down syndrome. She was the mother's second birth. 

She has a healthy brother who was born in 1994. Her parents refused her at birth and signed the documents necessary for Lily to be adopted.

Lily arrived at the orphanage on April 16, 2009. She has not had a single visitor :(

All of her other medical diagnoses are secondary to Down syndrome. She has a heart defect and had "high lung hypertensity" but they were unable to diagnose the specific defect. The heart surgery she had was an exploratory procedure to get a better diagnosis, performed in April, 2010. At the time it was determined that a second exploratory procedure was needed to finish the diagnosis, but a series of fevers and illnesses prevented that procedure from occurring.

She has an umbilical hernia and surgery is recommended.

At her one year check-up she was diagnosed with "talking and movement disorders" and strabismus. At her second year check-up she was pronounced generally healthy, but with richitis and a poor immune system. Also her strabismus was said to be gone (we're not sure that's actually the case).

That's it.

No more, Lily Anna. You will have visitors every day of your life from now on, and a Mommy and Daddy to call your very own :)