Originally posted by: sean wookie
But will she be able to live a normal happy life?

Considering that others with far more debilitating disabilities have gone on to live happy lives, I believe my answer would have to be a resounding "YES!" Her only real disadvantages are that she would draw stares (which another ten or so years of surgery and some prosthetics should be able to help) and that she probably won't be able to talk (an impairment that others have also overcome). This guy in Russia had half his face bitten off by a bear. He looked worse than that girl, but reconstructive surgery and some masking prosthetics make him look perfectly normal to a passerby. Will her life be exactly the same as Joe Schmoe? Of course not, but if that's enough reason to give up your life (or prevent yourself from living), then a whole bunch of people need to jump off a roof, pronto.

Look at Christopher Reeve. His impairments were just as much a freak accident as hers (the scans and stuff they did prior to her birth could have indicated something as comparatively minor as a cleft palate, so as far as the parents knew, an emergency abortion could have been a regrettable choice), but Reeve was able to smile and laugh and he couldn't even walk. I'm sorry, but I'll take an at least partially fixable disfiguration (have you seen pictures of her when she was born? Look at them and tell me there hasn't been a 5,000% improvement, already) and the need to learn sign language over the distant possibility of moving my pinky in my old age any day.