Mary
Mary is the youngest of five children of Luis and Melany who live in the town of San Borjas in the northern Bolivian state of Beni. The couple has been together 20 years, and lives mostly off the land, rarely traveling far from home. But when Mary started having heart problems at just four months, her parents made the long trip to Santa Cruz to visit specialists at the renowned INCOR hospital. Since her open-heart surgery, Melany reports that Mary is gaining weight, and doctors at her first post-op check-up reported that her oxygen saturation levels are vastly improved.