A 10-year-old West Michigan lady whose face was mauled by a pet raccoon when she was a baby has had her final vital surgery.
A surgeon during Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, north of Detroit, divided a strap of skin from Charlotte Ponce’s front to emanate a outward of her nose, MLive.com reported Saturday.
“The medicine went really well,” pronounced Dr. Kongkrit Chaiyasate, who also remade a girl’s top lip. He skeleton to refurbish Charlotte’s right ear subsequent summer, a teenager surgery.
Her family pronounced it was Charlotte’s final medicine to refurbish her nose and called it a finish success, according to WOOD-TV. She is undergoing a two-year array of surgical procedures to refurbish her nose, ear and lip.
The raccoon pounded Charlotte in 2002 in her crib while her biological relatives lived in Ravenna, about 15 miles easterly of Muskegon. They were charged with owning a dangerous animal that caused critical damage and were placed on probation.
Charlotte and her comparison brother, Marshall, were adopted by a Ponces, their great-aunt and great-uncle, in 2005 after a state consummated a biological parents’ parental rights.
The Ponces live in Spring Lake, about 30 miles northwest of Grand Rapids. They trust a raccoon, that after was destroyed, wanted Charlotte’s bottle.
Charlotte was approaching to be liberated from a sanatorium Saturday and will be behind in propagandize behind in early 2013, WOOD-TV reported.
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