A grown woman of 21 with a son of her own, the woman who will always be “Baby Jessica” looked for the first time at the pipe that for nearly 59 hours had been her tomb almost 20 years ago.Since she was pulled from the 8-inch pipe in October of 1987 when she was a 18-month old toddler, Jessica McClure Morales hadn’t returned to that well until she went there with a TODAY crew. Indeed, she had never appeared live on television or given a free interview with the media.
She endured 15 surgeries in the years after the incident to repair injuries she suffered. Her small toe and part of her right foot had to be removed because gangrene had set in where her circulation had been cut off. She has scars on her thighs from where skin was harvested for grafts.
In high school, she was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis that is being controlled by her physicians.
Jessica’s parents were just kids when she was born; her mother was 17 and her dad 18 when she fell into the well. Her aunt ran a baby-sitting service in Midland, and Jessica had been playing with other kids in the yard while Cissy McClure watched them. Cissy went into the house to answer the phone. When she came back moments later, the children were looking down the casing of an abandoned well, and Cissy heard her daughter calling out to her.
Source: MSNBC
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