(Warning: Parts of this movie are kind of gooey and gross.)
Joy was born with a double cleft lip and palette. She recently had scar revision surgery to update the work that had been performed when she was an infant in China before my parents adopted her. For a few weeks, Joy had stitches in her lip and a rubbery device up her nose to provide structure as she healed. That had to come out.
My father captured this movie with Joy in the doctor’s office. She was a cute little trooper, wasn’t she?
