DANVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) – A 20-month-old child named Mariah is facing multiple medical conditions that require ongoing treatment at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Mariah Way was born early with what doctors later diagnosed as cloacal malformation, a rare congenital birth defect where the bowels, reproductive system and urinary tract form into one channel. She also has fused kidneys located in the bottom of her pelvis.
“I had her and she had two kidneys but they were fused together in the bottom of her pelvis,” said Deborah Way, Mariah’s mother…