040974 Doll Baby Wins Fight

WOODRUFF Ariz. (AP) Sherri Lynn Scorse was a doll-like 23 ounces when she was born prematurely last December, A doctor said she was so small she couldn't  support life.

But after heart surgery and a three-month stay at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Sherri Lynn now weighs 4 pounds 9 ounces and is home with her Parents, Jerald and Shirley Scorse of Woodruff.

Two days after Sherri Lyn was born Dec. 16, Dr. Robert J. Haley of nearby Holbrook decided to send the tiny child to the better-equipped hospital at Phoenix, 200 miles southwest of here.

"He tried to Prepare us not to get our hopes up," said ,Scorse, a loan officer with a Holbrook bank. "He was very kind. He said 'Don't get attached to it. It can't support life. It would take a miracle.' -She was just like a Barbie Doll. "

Scorse remembers his wonder at seeing the tiny baby, which weighed I pound 7 ounces at birth. She had blonde hair