Name: Faces of Long Island: A Lifesaving Surgery
Uploaded: 2022-02-02T16:36:57Z
Duration: 2 min 49 s
Description: Watch a Commack couple's journey from the discovery of an aggressive brain tumor in their 5-week-old daughter to a lifesaving surgery at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Watch a Commack couple's journey from the discovery of an aggressive brain tumor in their 5-week-old daughter to a lifesaving surgery at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.


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