Quang Ngai, Vietnam -- Marion McGoven, ReSurge board member
Tho is 18 years old and has never really spoken a word in his life. He was born with a condition commonly referred to as being "tongue tied." This is when the tongue is connected to the bottom of you mouth so it cannot move.
All over the world a 10-minute operation called a “frenulum release” helps free the tongue of any infant born with this condition. However, Tho grew up in a very small village to very poor parents. His family just assumed he could not talk and never would.
Tho heard about a ReSurge team coming to Quang Ngai and came to see if they could help him and they could! His procedure was less than a half an hour long and was done using local anesthetics.
Tho can now stick his tongue out and move it left, right, up and down. He should now be able to learn how to talk.
In fact, as he left the hospital, he nodded his head to say thank you to his doctors. He nodded emphatically when asked if he would promise his surgeon, Dr. Bill McClure, to learn how to actually say those words.
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