SAVING BABY ADAM
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Adam was diagnosed with Bartsocias-Papas, a rare condition from which most die while in the womb or shortly after birth. Raja Paulraj, a psychiatrist, and Jessica Cooksey Paulraj, a nurse, had only been married for six months when Adam was born. Yet, when they heard about the abandoned baby boy, they went to see him; and though they were told he may not live more than a few weeks, they adopted him.
Friends back in the United States were able to connect the new parents with specialists at UNC hospitals who were able to help change Adam’s fate. Since then, he’s had surgery to build eyelids and protect his vision, surgeries to fix his cleft lip and give him a palate that allows him to eat food. In June, he had surgery to remove cysts from his ears and nose in addition to placing a tube in one of his ears.
