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Sandy McKinnon, the miracle mom who underwent open heart surgery while doctors delivered her child by caesarean section took her six-week-old son home(...)
Sandy McKinnon, the miracle mom who underwent open heart surgery while doctors delivered her child by caesarean section took her six-week-old son home(...)

Sandy McKinnon, the miracle mom who underwent open heart surgery while doctors delivered her child by caesarean section took her six-week-old son home(...)

Date7/11/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sandy McKinnon, the miracle mom who underwent open heart surgery while doctors delivered her child by caesarean section took her six-week-old son home to Bramalea this weekend. The life-saving operations were performed simultaneously by surgeons at Toronto General Hospital. But yesterday was ringed with sadness for the 27-year-old mother. She left son[Incomplete]
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0026414F
      A touch to remember, Yesterday was a banner one for Sandy and Roger McKinnon, a Bramalea couple whose world crashed last week when doctors had to perf(...)
      A touch to remember, Yesterday was a banner one for Sandy and Roger McKinnon, a Bramalea couple whose world crashed last week when doctors had to perf(...)
      Bull, Ron
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      Life saved: Rita de Silva and her two-year-old son Kasun return to Sri Lanka this week after Kasun's surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children to fix holes in his heart and remove a cyst on his lung
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      5/28/1988
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      5/17/1991
      The affecting history of Jane Shore : the wife of a London merchant, who was seduced by King Edward IV, King of England : recounting her splendid living during the life of her royal lover, the severe penance she underwent, the desertion of her friends, her subsequent wretchedness, and dreadful death in the open fields, by order of King Richard the Third, otherwise Crooked-back Dick
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      1830
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      Gower, Patti
      5/13/1990
      Rachelle Romanger, 8 months, safe after major heart surgery, goes home with mom Dayl, dad Dave, brother Stephen, 6
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      Combs, Erin
      12/15/1974
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      Lennon, Frank
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      Beaty, Keith
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      Bull, Ron
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      Bob Lloyd organized reunion of Canadian Guinea pigs. Members are airmen who underwent plastic surgery at East Grinstead hospital
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      Darrell, Dick
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