Skull - People

I'm Susie, 23. I've been married 3 years to Matt, 25. We have Oceana who is 2 1/2 and Joshua who was born 7 Jan 2008. Joshua had an encephalocele - a neural tube defect - that has left a hole in his skull. His brain grew out through the back of the skull into a membrane-covered sack. We thought it was repairable by surgery after birth, but at 36 weeks we were informed that he'd die soon after...

I was born on August 8th 1991. Two or more weeks premature. I spent the first three and a half years of my life in a Romanian orphanage, on the third year one of the caretakers attempted to kill me by throwing me down the stairs for complaining that she was stealing food. I suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury with skull fracture. I remember waking up in the hospital. Because of the premature birth...