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Facial reconstruction patient Yeabsra Hailmarim full of bounce as she arrives in Toronto
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Facial reconstruction patient Yeabsra Hailmarim full of bounce as she arrives in Toronto
Facial reconstruction patient Yeabsra Hailmarim full of bounce as she arrives in Toronto
Yeabsra Hailmarim returned to Toronto still full of popcorn, as they say in Ethiopia.
She is 7 years old now, her mother explains, and is showing a little of the reserve that is part of growing up. But she’s still spunky and bounces around.
Yeabsra and her mother, Aynalem Adugna, will meet with surgeons at the Hospital for Sick Children this week to prepare for the next stage of facial reconstruction surgery. This time, they will build a new nose for Yeabsra. Last April, in a 12-hour operation, doctors cut her skull into four pieces and put it back together in repairing a complex disfigurement. Her eyes are now closer together and the cleft that left her gums in a sharp V is almost perfectly straightened. It’s a big step forward.
In Grade 2 now, Yeabsra is more aware that she is different, her mother said Sunday. “She doesn’t want to see herself in a mirror.”
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