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...Little Pamela Lamphere (22 months) cleared the first hurdle in her obstacle race for a normal life. Because she was born with her bladder outside her body, her best chance for outliving early childhood was a dangerous series of three operations (TIME, Aug. 23). Last week the first was performed in Chicago's Cook County Hospital by Surgeon Harry A. Oberhelman. Said Dr. Oberhelman: "It went just fine-couldn't be better...
...Pamela's parents, whose marital differences have fascinated Chicago newspaper readers almost as much as Pamela's peril, took the operation harder than the patient did. The sight of a routine blood transfusion blacked out father Fred Lamphere. Said he: "I saw them putting needles and blood into her, and I keeled right over in a faint...
Last week, the first operation behind her, Pamela was playing with her dolls and feeling cheerful. The second preliminary operation will be performed in a few weeks, and the third (the removal of the external bladder) in several months...
...PAMELA LAMPHERE First stop on a perilous passage...
...desperately hard decision for any parent to make. In Chicago, Fred W. Lamphere and his wife, Irene, could not agree. Last week, trying to force an operation for Pamela Frances, her father brought suit against her mother. Said Mrs. Lamphere: "I live for my child. I want her as long as I can have her." Said Fred Lamphere: "I love her just as much. I want her to have a chance to live...