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Foundation Shares First Images as Two-Year-Old Jazlyn Advances in Galveston Burn Recovery

The nonprofit behind her transfer to Shriners in Galveston reports steady rehabilitation gains.

Overview

  • Fundación Michou y Mau released new photos and an update saying Jazlyn is progressing after specialized burn care in Texas.
  • Doctors performed skin grafts to her hands, feet and head using donor tissue from her back and legs, and she now wears presotherapy garments.
  • Jazlyn lives with her mother in Shriners hospital housing and is receiving physical, occupational and psychological therapy.
  • She was extubated three days after arriving in the U.S. hospital and was discharged from intensive care about a week later following initial stabilization at Centro Médico Siglo XXI.
  • The Sept. 10 gas tanker explosion in Iztapalapa left 32 dead; relatives say her grandmother, Alicia Matías, shielded her and was reported to have died days later.