Little Siarsha Alvarez - the three year old with that rare skin disorder - is doing better and is getting ready to come home. That's the word from her father Simeon Alvarez in Merida who told us today that she's fought off pneumonia and will be discharged tomorrow at noon. Tropic air is sponsoring the family a free flight on their new Merida route and so they should be back tomorrow. But Siarsha is under strict orders. The doctors say she can only bathe with purified water and she has to be kept in an air conditioned home. Those with Stevens-Johnson syndrome suffer for as long as ten years with side effects. The family's medical bills so far? About thirty thousand Belize dollars.
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Little Siarsha Alvarez - the three year old with that rare skin disorder - is doing better and is getting ready to come home. That's the word from her father Simeon Alvarez in Merida who told us today that she's fought off pneumonia and will be discharged tomorrow at noon. Tropic air is sponsoring the family a free flight on their new Merida route and so they should be back tomorrow. But Siarsha is under strict orders. The doctors say she can only bathe with purified water and she has to be kept in an air conditioned home. Those with Stevens-Johnson syndrome suffer for as long as ten years with side effects. The family's medical bills so far? About thirty thousand Belize dollars.