Thursday, December 13, 2007 Boy born with tumor, stuns hospital staff
A BABY boy was born yesterday with a nine-inch tumor in his buttocks, which makes him look like he has extra parts sticking out of his body.
“It is like a baby inside a baby. The formation of the tumor is very unusual because it looks like body parts of another baby,” Dr. Lyndin Cuizon, told Sun.Star Cebu.
Rodeza Marie, 34, gave birth to the child at dawn yesterday at the Lapu-Lapu City District Hospital. The baby stunned the nurses and other hospital staff, who thought they were seeing an undeveloped twin.
Cuizon said it was a tumor that usually develops if a mother was taking antibiotics during critical moments of her pregnancy.
“It was congenital because the mother might have been taking medicines during the formation of the fetus,” she said.
She said the medicine would form a germ cell that will develop into a tumor.
Medicine
Marie admitted taking medicine for her hyperthyroid when she was one-month pregnant.
The baby is her second child in her nine-year marriage with husband Wilson, 36. They are soccupying a government property in Sitio Abuno, Barangay Pajac, Lapu-Lapu City with their eldest child, age 9.
Surgical expenses
With an income barely for their daily needs, the couple is asking the public for help for the surgical expenses of the baby. Wilsonworks in a factory. Rodeza is unemployed.
“Ambot lang kung asa mi og kwarta. Naluoy baya ko pagka kita nako sa akong anak (I don’t know where we will get money. I really pity my child),” she said.
Cuizon said the baby needs to be transferred to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City which is more equipped for the surgery. (AIV)
