TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Doctors at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in Florida said the condition Jasmine Ramirez suffered from is very rare.
At age 2, her left leg began to grow abnormally large. And even now, over a decade later, doctors still aren’t quite sure what’s causing it.
“It is in the top 10 of my career of almost 30 years of searching, but we haven’t given up, and we are going to figure it out, and then we are going to call it Jasmine’s gene,” said Dr. Jennifer Mayer, one of the physicians who has worked with Jasmine for years to deal with her condition.
Second Line in the Sky memorial for Bourbon Street attack victims coming down ahead of Mardi Gras
Over the years, Jasmine had multiple surgeries to treat the condition. But none of the procedures, or the medications she was prescribed, seemed to work…