October 25th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Shiloh Pepin
it’s very heart breaking whenever someone dear to your heart leaves you.
Shiloh Pepin, who was born with a rare condition often called “mermaid syndrome” and gained a wide following on the Internet and national television, has died. She was 10.
Doctors had predicted she would survive for just days after her birth at the most. Instead, the girl, described by her mother earlier this week as “a tough little thing,” died at Maine Medical Center on Friday afternoon, hospital spokesman John Lamb said. She had been hospitalized in critical condition for nearly a week.
Being born with sirenomelia meant that the Kennebunkport girl had only one partially working kidney, no lower colon or genital organs and legs fused from the waist down.
Some children who have survived sirenomelia have had surgery to separate their legs, but Shiloh did not because blood vessels crossing from side to side in her circulatory system would have been severed. She had received two kidney transplants, the last one in 2007.
Friday at the age of 10, she joined the Lord in heaven.
May You Rest In Peace little Angel.
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thats so heartbreaking .. ::(( ..
may she r.i.p
awww. that’s really sad but i bet her parents made sure that she lived a good life. may be she rest in peace…