“People were scared of me, they would start running,” said an African girl who underwent a unique brain operation in Atlanta to remove a big tumor…
Dorothy Anning, a 21-year-old from Ghana, is now studying medicine at the University of Ghana after surviving a life-changing surgery to remove a large tumor behind her eye. Her dream is to help others with deformities or disabilities—just like a doctor once helped her.
At the age of six, Dorothy was diagnosed with a benign cranial tumor that started from the bone in her skull and grew outward, eventually occupying the socket where her right eye should have been. As the tumor grew, people in her community became afraid of her appearance, and some would even run away when they saw her.
In 2008, with help from a Ghanaian doctor and the Children’s Cross Connection in Atlanta, Dorothy traveled to the U.S. for surgery. There, neurosurgeon Dr. Jim Robinson…
