Baby Born with Heart Outside of Body.

Wow, this is tough to see. Recently the two week old baby of a close friend died after heart surgery. Another friend has a child that will likely die in the womb because of a vascular condition. I’m probably letting those events color my feelings about this, but I didn’t expect to see something like this on neatorama.

Chris–I’m so sorry about your friends, please let them know that they may not know me, but my prayers are with them.

As for the story itself, it doesn’t make me sick to see the above picture…if anything, it fascinates me that we have been gifted with the technology to fix such a condition. The sheer amount of kindness and good care little Naseem also recieved isn’t to be underestimated, either–nor is the likely fact that Naseem may very well grow up to be a thriving, healthy kid, simply by virtue of being so young. In these respects, it certainly *is* “neat”, IMHO.

–TwoDragons