mona edwards who lives in texas who lost her daughter gina to cancer in two thousand and eight. and you know was thirty eight years old. i met. kenny in the summer of one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and he had just came back from vietnam we were together about three years and we got married and the following year we had our first child and that was gina and jim was born with congenital birth defects she had. her. purse her abdomen was open from the sternum to the pubic area. she had all of her internal organs on the outside of her body and they were enclosed in a sack she didn't have a uterus while her uterus was split and i say oh it's heart shaped her bladder was the same way heart shaped. she didn't have a anus she didn't have a vagina. her hips were out like this and her it rib cage was too. and she was deformed in the genital area you couldn't tell if she was male female or why they couldn't tell that she was female until they got her to children's hospital and they found ovaries and they said well as girl then i had family members that had been to the hospital to see