An emaciated 7-year-old orphan who was starved for almost seven years has made an amazing recovery after adopted by Priscilla Morse of Tennessee. At 7-year-old, Ryan Morse, had not grown or gained weight since birth and had been covered in hair because of severe malnutrition. One year after his adoption, the boy now looks a healthy, thriving little boy.
On 2015, poor pictures of baby Ryan were posted online. The picture showed a thin, pale, little and severely malnourished boy. Even though caregivers from his orphanage at Bulgaria did all their best to take care of him, the boy was almost dying. However, when Priscilla Morse from Tennessee saw the heartbreaking pictures of Ryan in 2015, she knew in her heart she had to rescue the boy.
So Morse went to Bulgaria, finalized paperwork and brought home Ryan in October 2015 at their house in Nashville, Tennessee. As soon as they got back to Nashville, the boy was rushed to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. The doctors said they had not seen anything like it before and if it happened in the United States it would be a national news as it was so shocking, to be famished for seven years.
Morse was shocked the first time she saw Ryan. She said the pictures did not do it justice. The orphan boy was smaller in real-life, more fragile and sicker. Morse even said her index finger was the same size as Ryan's thigh.
At first, the little boy suffered re-feeding syndrome, meaning he had to wait for some months before his tiny body could finally deal with a feeding tube. Fortunately, in March 2015, he began gaining weight after being altered from G-tube or gastrostomy tube to a J-tube or Jejunostomy feeding.
The little boy is now living with the Morse in their house and is making continuing improvements following adoption. He weighs 23lbs as of today according to what Daily Mail has learned. Now he is laughing, moving without any help and smiling.
"Given everything he's gone through, he is an incredibly happy guy!" Priscilla said to Little Things. She also said Ryan's progress had been nothing short of a miracle in her opinion.
