The Garcia family – mom, dad, daughter Maria de los Angeles and son Maynor came to us the first year of our mission trips in 2006 because baby Maynor had clefts. They became known as the “Happy Family” because they interacted so joyfully with each other. Maynor’s mother was expecting a baby. What a wonderful happy family the unborn child would be blessed to have! Maynor’s lip was repaired and he was a handsome little boy. The “Happy Family” went home even happier, but we would see them in the future to repair Maynor's cleft palate.
One year later the Garcia family greeted us again. Maynor looked great, but his baby brother Juan Carlos had a cleft lip and a cleft palate. Juan Carlos was too young to have surgery in 2007, but through the years the family has returned again and again.
Now Maynor’s and Juan Carlos’ lips are beautiful and their palates are whole, but they have some teeth that need the dentists’ attention this year.
There are now five children in the “Happy Family”. And, happily, none of the other children have suffered clefts.
As much as we hate to say a final good-by to this wonderful family, we hope they have no future needs from Iowa MOST, but it would be great if they would stop in each year so we could watch the children grow up and so we might know any new member of our “Happy Family”.
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