article_snippet.sent: Timothy Eli Thompson was born premature on March 4 without any nasal passages or sinus cavities, a condition so rare it only has a one in 197 million chance of happening.
article_snippet.sent: Timothy Eli Thompson was born without a nose in March in Alabama and Timothy Eli Thompson mom put a photo of her son a pro-life group tried to post to promote Eli's story on Facebook .
article_snippet.sent: Timothy Eli Thompson had to undergo a tracheotomy at only five days old.
article_snippet.sent: Doctors hope to be able to drill nasal passages in Timothy Eli Thompson's skull which will allow Timothy Eli Thompson to breathe when Timothy Eli Thompson is older.
article_snippet.sent: Mother-of-three wrote: 'A family friend   will have to have a tracheoomy & a feeding bag inserted into A family friend   stomach, which is also not what I expected. '
article_snippet.sent: Doctors hope to be able to drill nasal passages in Timothy Eli Thompson's skull when Timothy Eli Thompson's older which will allow Timothy Eli Thompson to breathe .
article_snippet.sent: After Timothy Eli Thompson was born, Timothy Eli Thompson was treated at the USA Children's and Women's Hospital in Mobile for three weeks.
article_snippet.sent: Mother-of-three shared the good news of Timothy Eli Thompson test results, including an eye exam and cranial scan that came back normal, as well as the 'hard blow' the family was dealt when the family found out Timothy Eli Thompson didn't have nasal passages.
article_snippet.sent: The mother-of-three has also shared the emotional joys Mother-of-three's had with Timothy Eli Thompson, including Timothy Eli Thompson first successful bath and bottle feeding, and the first time Mother-of-three saw Timothy Eli Thompson face without an oral respirator.
highlights_snippet.sent: Timothy Eli Thompson was born without nasal passages or sinus cavities .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Timothy Eli Thompson had to have a tracheotomy and family now has a GoFundMe page for Timothy Eli Thompson .
  