In a recent report, it has been revealed that Boston doctors have successfully operated on a 9-year-old Maine girl for the world's first known esophageal transplant. The girl now has six new organs: stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas and part of her esophagus.

This is for the first time when such a life-changing operation has been performed on any one. The patient, Alannah Shevenell, has also returned home now. She was told to be greeted with a procession of fire and there were trucks taking her back home at her family's farmhouse outside Portland.

The media glare the girl got is something which she would have never anticipated. She said that she was "glad to be feeling well again and able to go sledding, make a snowman, work on her scrapbooks and give her grandmother a little good-humored sass".

It seems that the girl has had enough of her miserable life, but now she wants to live every single minute of her life with full spirit.

The days she surely wants to forget are those when she was just five and had to suffer from fever and even she was losing chunk of weight. Though her tumor was diagnosed at that time, doctors could not do much to remove it. Doctors found that the tumor moved from organ to organ, thereby making things a lot difficult for them to manage. It was then they got to know that she was battling with a rare form of sarcoma, but chemotherapy was found to be totally useless in this regard.

It was unbearable for the young girl to go through constant pain in her stomach, making it even more difficult to live like this. It was later when the family decided to go for the surgery. "It's probably one of the most extensive tumor removals ever done", said Dr. Heung Bae Kim, the lead surgeon on the procedure at Children's Hospital Boston.