Kenadie Jourdin-Bromley weighed 2 lbs, 8 ounces when she was born in February 2003. She was not expected to live more than a day, but she has survived.
She continued to defy doctors expectations and at the age of 8 months, Kenadie was finally diagnosed with primordial dwarfism, a genetic condition that is believed to affect only about 100 people in the world. She isn't expected to grow past about 30 inches or weigh more than 8 pounds.
[link] (Boing Boing link. Actual site seems to be down. Perhaps not enough bandwidth at the moment.)
Kathy, I'm so sorry about your friend.
I got a vivid, heartwarming picture in my mind of a woman with bright eyes and an even brighter smile.
That's Norma! It's been several years since I've seen her, but luckily, the department I'm in now is filled with people who've been here forever, so some of them still had sporadic contact with her, even though she was laid off back in 2000.
The dept. I started in back in 1992 was where I first met Norma. To show how well-loved she was (and still is, among us old-timers), our department's birthday tradition was that people brought in food on your birthday. You could generally tell how popular you were by the number of dishes brought in; new or not very well-liked people got the standard 5-6 dishes, others got more. When it was Norma's b-day, we had to bring in extra tables for all the food brought in from around the company, because everyone knew her, and to know her was to love her.
What a beautiful metaphor of caring...bringing a dish. I truly believe that being loved like that carries with us over the big thresholds in our lives.
Godspeed Norma.
flea, thanks for the info. I have a strange situation where this woman says she is HIV+, but there's no evidence of it in her file - including a negative HIV test. I just thought it was curious.
Many sympathies to Norma and those close to her.
I hope it's not a bad omen that on our wood anniversary I had my maple tree cut down. (It was too close to the house.) They also cut my forsythia back, which is totally freaking me out, but they tell me it will come back. Poor tree, 40 years to grow and an hour to cut it down.
Okay, my mother's first name is Norma. This is very weird to read.
I am very sorry to hear the news and hope she passes with grace, but I really can't think about it without getting twitchy.
They also cut my forsythia back, which is totally freaking me out, but they tell me it will come back.
Forsythia generally come back with a vengeance.
