Cough Syrup (Grey's Anatomy)

Dr Alessa Ricci, daughter of late famed surgeons Celine Fleur and Lorenzo Ricci, Celine was a double-board-certified surgeon in Orthopaedic and Trauma surgery, her father a Paediatric surgeon. Both of her parents were heads of their respective departments at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas.

Alessa was the youngest of three, two boys and she was the only girl. Her brothers were thirteen and eight years older than her. She was her parents surprise pregnancy, their little miracle, she was born at 25 weeks and spent the first seven months of her life in the nicu.

She was born extremely early and with a heart condition, resulting in seven surgeries on her heart by her first birthday due to her Tetralogy of Fallot.

Alessa was diagnosed with type one diabetes on her fifth birthday after collapsing due to extremely high blood sugars.

Alessa's parents died when she was seven and for a period of time she lived in care, where she was abused, after a year and a half in an abusive foster home, her older brother Emerson and his wife Jasmine adopted her.

From a young age all she had felt was pain and grief, moving 2,330 miles away from home in Houston to Seattle, hoping for a fresh start, her happy ending.

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