mermaid girl
Shilah Pepin, known to the public as “Mermaid Girl,” suffers from sirenomelia, a condition found in one out of ever 100,000 births. Sirenomelia has left Shilah’s two legs fused together and without a bladder, uterus, colon or vagina.
Told by doctors that Shiloh would survive only a few months, two surgeries later Shilah is still functioning and enjoying a young childhood. At age ten, she now attends the Consolidated Elementary School, making her the single survivor of sirenomelia not to undergo surgery to separate her conjoined legs.
Shilah Pepin, known to the public as “Mermaid Girl,” suffers from sirenomelia, a condition found in one out of ever 100,000 births. Sirenomelia has left Shilah’s two legs fused together and without a bladder, uterus, colon or vagina.
Told by doctors that Shiloh would survive only a few months, two surgeries later Shilah is still functioning and enjoying a young childhood. At age ten, she now attends the Consolidated Elementary School, making her the single survivor of sirenomelia not to undergo surgery to separate her conjoined legs.
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