Afscme685 - 69th Public Affairs Detachment

69th Public Affairs Detachment

10.14.2009 CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo —

Viona Cuci has stunning blue eyes and a smile that will break your heart. This is very fitting, since Viona had a hole in hers.

Viona, who was born just one day after Christmas last year, has had a very hard time of things. You might hear some people say they had it rough as a child, but you wouldn’t say you had it rougher than Viona. On Jan. 14 almost three weeks after being born doctors discovered a murmur in her heart.

“We had gone to the doctor for a regular checkup when they found the heart murmur,” said Shemsi Cuci, Viona’s father and a linguist working on Camp Bondsteel. “We had an ultrasound and discovered she had a hole in her heart.”

In fact baby Viona had two heart complications, the hole in her heart and an almost complete blockage of the aortic artery going to her lungs.
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