Little girl had brain surgery at Florida hospital

Heartbreak: Megan Renfroe, right, holds her little sister Katie who suffers from megalencephaly at their home in Paxton, Florida Angie and Danial Renfroe hold their daughter Katie whose condition had caused her to have seizures as much as 50 times a day A little girl born with a rare genetic disorder has been offered hope through a series of life-altering surgeries. Katie Renfroe, four, was diagnosed with megalencephaly before she was born, causing some of her facial features to be abnormally large. She also had part of her brain removed as an infant to control the seizures that were happening as often as 50 times a day. 'All we know is we give her all the love, all the attention we know how to give her,' says her mother Angie Renfroe. 'We've never treated her like she has a handicap.' Katie is the sixth of Angie and Danial Renfroe's eight children, the one who came along after doctors told them Angie wouldn't be having any more children. In the first trimester, doctors noticed anomalies on her ultrasound. The baby's head was 'oddly shaped,' her parents were told. At three and a half months, a specialist told her parents that Katie's head was three times larger than normal.
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