WHAT AT A JOURNEY!
Aug 20, 2020
5 minutes
TOUGH START
When I was born, I was diagnosed with a Bilateral Tessier cleft.
It meant that not only did I have facial deformities from my lip up, but I was also blind in my left eye.
My mum, Livi, now 38, had no idea I’d be born like it.
My mouth was split from my lips to my eyes, meaning there was a gaping hole in my mouth.
When I was just eight-months-old, in April 2003, I underwent major reconstruction surgery to close up one side of my face and adjust my eyelids.
Then, a few months later, the second side was done.
From my very start in life, all this meant was I bound to be treated differently.
Although my mouth had now been shut, I hardly
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