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Several years ago on mylot I first told you about Amyra, the little girl my sister and brother-in-law adopted out of foster care. She was the biggest blessing our family ever had. My mom's dementia was three years in, and getting worse. However, at the time my mom could still talk, and loved to tell people she was a grandmother. Amyra was premature, and spent the first 9 months of her life in the hospital. Even after my sister and BIL took her home she still ended up in the hospital on occasion because of pneumonia (she still occasionally has breathing treatments at home when she gets a cold). Her lungs were underdeveloped, she had a hole in her heart, and they fed her through a tube in her stomach. The hole in her heart has been repaired, she was off oxygen by three years old, and around that time they sewed up the hole in her stomach because she could chew and swallow enough calories for a child of her size. Hopefully, this picture taken recently shows up. She has glasses, which is fairly usual for a preemie, but her eye doctor said her vision should catch up in a few years. So here is my little Amyra, at 4 1/2 years old.