Baby Steps

In two days it will be a year ago that we ran the story of one-year-old Milagros Cerron who was born with fused legs, a usually fatal condition called sirenomelia, or "mermaid syndrome." At that time there were only three known cases, not including Daryl Hanna in Splash. The little Peruvian tot had surgery to separate her legs last June and just celebrated her second birthday with a birthday cake shaped like the Disney character The Little Mermaid, a nickname she's stuck with. Better than Splash, we suppose. If she made a wish after blowing out the candles, perhaps it was that she wouldn't have to suffer 10 more years of reconstructive surgery and rehab. (Yahoo)

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