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Three-year-old Payge is healthy and living in a loving, adoptive home a dramatic turnaround after she was rescued at age three months from neglect and malnourishment to the point that she weighed only six pounds and appeared skeletal.
Dawn Huff, Payge’s adoptive mother, says she loves Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital in Loma Linda, California, United States, for giving Payge lifesaving care and is thankful for the community effort that brought Payge into her family’s life.
“I look back at the scrapbook I’ve made of her photos and am shocked to see how tiny and sickly she was,” Huff says. “She was this emaciated baby, so close to death, and now she’s going to turn three and is just amazing her personality, the fighting spirit she has. She’s come so far.” Doctors who cared for Payge told San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies that if they had not found Payge, she would have died within se