A Child, a Bizarre Tumor and a Perilous Operation

May 19, 2008

By hammersmith


[Source: KERIDWEN CORNELIUS, NYTimes.com] – Three-year-old Grace Webster perches on the operating table, tiny and cold, covered only by a diaper and her sandy-blond Raggedy Ann hair. Her blue eyes gaze warily at the monster-size machines sprouting tube tentacles that encircle her