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Foot removed from baby's brain - Magical Realist - Feb 28, 2015
Ain't that a kick in the head!
"A vertical scar on his right temple, above the ear and just where his hairline ends, is the only sign that 3-month-old Sam Esquibel is more than the perfect baby he appears to be. He’s also a medical marvel.
“He is a miracle,” his mother, Tiffnie Esquibel, told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Tuesday in New York as little Sam fussed on her lap. “I just love him so much.”
Sam, dressed in a lumberjack shirt, made his first national appearance on TODAY after making headlines and amazing doctors three days after his Oct. 1 birth. He has become known as the baby born with a foot in his brain, and even three months after the tumor containing the tiny foot and other partially formed body parts was removed during a delicate and successful surgery, doctors are still debating exactly what it was inside baby Sam’s head."===
http://www.today.com/id/28635507/ns/today-today_health/t/baby-ok-after-surgeons-remove-foot-his-brain/#.VPIX_vnF-So
RE: Foot removed from baby's brain - C C - Mar 1, 2015
Hmmmm... Apparently a fetiform teratoma is one homunculus that isn't going to receive a special extension of protective coverage under fetal rights anytime soon.