My Intestines Got Sucked Out In A Swimming Pool, TRULY
SUBSCRIBE to Barcroft TV: A horrific swimming pool accident left a teenager without her intestines and unable to eat food for the last 10 years. When she was fiveyearsold, Salma Bashir was playing in a baby swimming pool in Alexandria, Egypt. She sat on the pools suction valve and the force was so strong that it ripped her small intestines from her body. Given just weeks to live Salmas parents travelled with their young family to Pennsylvania, USA for lifesaving surgery. Salma was then on a waiting list for a transplant and after a year and a half of waiting, she had the surgery that her family believed would be the start of the rest of Salmas life. Instead the small intestines transplant rejected and after six months it had to be removed along with Salmas large intestines and gallbladder; her stomach also had to remain open. Salma now receives all her nutrients via a TPN tube. Hopes for a future transplant are slim the estimated cost of the fiveorgan transplant are , 036
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