It’s whiskey cash galore
CASES of whiskey dating back to Prohibition in America are expected to fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds at auction.
The boozy New York haul was discovered in a secret vault built to hide drink after the ban on alcohol was introduced in 1920. success until she starts to walk. But so far doctors can’t see any signs of a problem.”
Piper-Kohl’s three-hour operation saw surgeons insert a fetoscope – a small telescope with a camera and light and two instruments – through a hole in Georgia’s abdomen.
A 3.5cm collagen patch, used to treat burns victims, was attached to Piper’s spine when she weighed just 2.1oz.
The patch covered the exposed nerves and will protect them to stop the baby being paralysed.
After the successful operation Georgia and Tyler, 21, returned home where she was told to rest until her due date.
But on the day of their planned follow-up scan just six weeks later, Georgia went into an early labour.
Doctors performed an emergency C-section, and Piper-Kohl was born at just 3lb 10oz.
She spent the next two months in intensive care before being allowed home.
In a touching gesture the first-time parents named their daughter after Professor Thomas Kohl, her surgeon.
Georgia, from Yate, South Gloucestershire, said: “We won’t know if the operation has completely worked until she starts walking. But it all looks good at the moment.
“In a couple of months she’ll be able to sit up which might help show if it worked.”
Georgia and Tyler have set up a fundraising page to help pay off the loan.
You can donate at: www.justgiving.com/ crowdfunding/babygoperationfund.