Fifteen-year-old Lai Thi Dao holds her mother's hands as she looks on during a news conference Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center in Miami. The Vietnamese girl has a 16-pound facial tumor and is in Miami awaiting surgery that will restore her ability to eat and speak. Doctors say the tumor threatens to suffocate Lai. They will remove the tumor in a 10-hour surgery on April 29. [Agencies]