Doctors gave Charlotte a 20 percent chance of surviving a complicated surgery and now, she's made it home to her twin sister Olivia.
Thursday, August 18, 2022 4:20PM
At first, the Vallieres didn't know what was wrong. Olivia was healthy, and although Charlotte had been born with one lung, she hadn't had any issues after birth. Dr. Matthew Brigger, chief of the pediatric otolaryngology division at Rady Children's Hospital, started seeing Charlotte, who was just six weeks old at the time. Charlotte would eventually be diagnosed with tracheal stenosis and complete tracheal rings. This meant she had a birth defect with her airway where the rings in her trachea were abnormal and she had an abnormal narrowing of the trachea, or windpipe. She also had a blood vessel wrapped around her trachea.
But the surgery was a major one and in order to do it, Brigger and the rest of Charlotte's doctors had to wait until she was big enough, since she and her twin had been born a few weeks early and therefore, Charlotte was small for her age., 'Well, if we can get through surgery, I'm gonna give her 50-50," Brigger said. "But I'm thinking more 20% of getting through surgery at the time, just knowing how much that we had to go through.
After spending 185 days in the hospital, Charlotte was finally discharged on Aug. 1, and her parents and twin sister were there to celebrate and bring her home.
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