{"id":206562,"date":"2019-07-16T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T12:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=206562"},"modified":"2019-07-15T02:10:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:10:27","slug":"nicu-nurse-adopts-girl-tumor-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nicu-nurse-adopts-girl-tumor-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing: NICU nurse cares for, then adopts baby girl with ‘massive tumor in her mouth’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When NICU nurse Kim McDaniel of MU Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, first met little Brooklyn, she knew the little girl would not have an easy life. Brooklyn was born in July 2017 with a “massive tumor in her mouth that grew from the base of her tongue,” reports<\/a> local station KOMU. “The tumor was so big it filled her entire mouth, protruded out of her mouth and grew into her throat.\u00a0 This made it nearly impossible for Brooklyn to speak or eat.” A tracheostomy and a feeding tube allow Brooklyn to breathe and eat.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn’s condition was so challenging that her birth parents unfortunately stopped coming, leaving her in the hospital’s care. McDaniel, with two grown children of her own, hadn’t planned on raising another. But she and the other nurses had essentially become Brooklyn’s family. McDaniel told<\/a> KOMU she felt “so bad” for Brooklyn, who had to have multiple surgeries. “It just broke my heart every time she would go for surgery. When they would bring her back, there was no one for the doctors to talk to. There was no one waiting for her. We knew she was alone but we never wanted her to feel like she was.”<\/p>\n

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