Undiagnosed baby in Mattel Children’s Hospital’s intensive care supported by donations from Star Wars enthusiasts
By Sarah Rogozen
June 26, 2011 9:58 p.m.
June 26, 2011 – The past few months of Leah Esquenazi’s life have gone from calm to scary and back to calm, over and over again. And this has been most of her life. The four-month-old lives in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA, suffering from an unusual group of symptoms that her doctors have been unable to diagnose.
Esquenazi has become something of an Internet sensation. There are prayer groups for the baby all over the world, and members of the Star Wars community ““ of which her parents are an enthusiastic part ““ have reached out to the family with donations.
You can read more about Leah or donate to her family here. [3:35]
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