Toddler Who Lost Arm To Cancer Receives Three-Legged Kitten For Christmas
By Dreamer
A two-year-old girl who lost her left arm to cancer has found a new friend in a rescue kitten, who lost her right paw in a car accident.
The parents of Scarlette Tipton, who underwent the surgery when she was just 10 months old, said they wanted a pet for their daughter who was “just like her”.
Scarlette was forced to have her left arm removed at the shoulder at just ten months old in October 2014 after being born with a cancer so rare that she is the only person to ever be diagnosed with it.
“We wanted a little kitten to have Scarlette grow up with so she has something that’s just like her,” mum Simone said in an interview with Love Meow.
Mother Simone told Good Morning America: 'When we were playing with the cat on the floor, Scarlette noticed it had staples on its side and a drainage tube sticking out, which she had to deal with as well, after her own amputation.
'She pointed at it, saying, "Owie, the cat is hurting" and placed her own hand on her left side where her amputation was.
'She's only two, but I think she really understood and it clicked with her that the cat was just like her.'
The family acquired the three-month-old kitten, Doc, just before Christmas.
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