HONOLULU (KHON2) — A severe spinal defect threatened the life of a Wahiawa woman’s unborn child. Now more than a year later, her baby is thriving thanks to a successful surgery before birth.
In 2023, Joy Wright was a busy wife and mom of three about welcome her fourth baby. Everything was fine until it wasn’t.
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“My husband and I were just kind of floored with the news kind of grieving. Our vision for the future, it was just going to be forever changed,” stated Wright.
Wright was 23 weeks pregnant with Isla when her baby was diagnosed with a severe form of Spina Bifida, a condition that occurs when the spine doesn’t completely wrap around the spinal cord and leaves an opening in the spine that can lead to serious complications. Baby Isla had a hole in her spine, which caused spinal fluid to leak, according to Wright.
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