Eight-year-old Emily Joost isn’t able to speak to her parents.  She has Aicardi syndrome which is a genetic disorder so rare only 500 people in the entire world have been diagnosed with it. 

The Belleville News-Democrat in Illinois says the girl can’t walk or feed herself either but her parents aren’t complaining. 

“It was very difficult for me, especially that first year,” Elaine Joost said of her daughter’s diagnosis at three-months-old. “In the beginning, it was always, ‘Am I going to be strong enough? Can I do this?’”

Emily can make noises to indicate if she is happy or upset, according to the newspaper, but she cannot form words.

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Fiona Shaw promised she would eat healthy when she discovered she was pregnant.

She told her boyfriend she would give up fast food and eat fresh fruit and vegetables instead.

But 28 weeks into her pregnancy, Shaw’s morning sickness was so bad that she lost 42 pounds and was forced to have an emergency Cesarean section, reports the U.K.’s Daily Mail.

Eighteen-year-old Leanne Nicholson is recovering from her second heart transplant in six years.   The teen from England told London’s Daily Mail that there is a million-to-one chance of getting a second heart transplant. 

Nicholson was healthy until the age of 12 when a virus attacked the muscle tissue of her heart. She was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, an enlargement of the heart tissue.

Doctors said her heart was so damaged it was as if she had suffered three major heart attacks – the upper two chambers of her heart were not functioning at all and the lower two were barely beating.

She was immediately put on life support, but a donor was found quickly.

However, within 14 months, Nicholson’s body began to reject the heart and she felt ill again.

Doctors told her she would need another new heart.

Are you bare there? It seems these days everyone is giving at least some thought to the idea of pubic hair care. And with summer just around the corner, you too may be thinking of “changing your look.”

How would you like to be on the road to a better body in just a week?  Actress and author Marilu Henner says it’s possible.  

Click on the picture below to hear about her “Booty Camp Blitz!”
 

A man hoping to donate his kidney to his fiancee, a woman with several medical conditions including renal failure, is being thwarted in his attempts to do so by hospitals unwilling to perform the operations and Medicaid’s refusal to pay for the surgery at an out-of-state hospital.

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The parents of a 3-month-old from Central Florida are publicizing a pharmacy error that resulted in them giving an overdose of medicine to their daughter who was ill with a sinus infection.

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No one wants his pet to go through a painful experience.  Now they don’t have to.  There’s a fairly new procedure being performed across the country that cuts down on pain during spay surgery.  It’s a minimally invasive spay surgery that is done with a laproscope. 

We were in the operating room during one of these procedures.  Click below to see how it works.