These two women should inspire us all
Reading the article in the Sports section of the May 1 edition, “Yang gets a grip on rare hand condition,” prompts me to write to congratulate her on her personal development and her goal. What an inspiration!
Our daughter Elizabeth, a 2005 graduate of Yosemite High School in Oakhurst, was born with a cleft lip and palate and has endured multiple surgeries throughout her life. Like Pahoua Yang, our daughter experienced taunts and cruel treatment by some peers; but she has turned misfortune into fortune.
Elizabeth received her degree of doctor of medicine from University of California at Los Angeles in 2013, is finishing a three year stint as a post-doctoral research fellow in the plastic surgery department at Stanford University this month, and will begin a six-year residency in integrated plastic surgery at the University of Wisconsin in June. Her goal: To become a cranio-facial surgeon to treat patients born with the same or other birth defects.
I have no doubt Miss Yang will achieve her goal to serve others, as has our daughter. God bless her.
Carol Zielins, Coarsegold
This story was originally published May 8, 2016 at 1:30 PM with the headline "These two women should inspire us all."