Month: February 2014

By Jan Tuckwood, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 3:57 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014 Mahniya Humphrey came into this world seven months ago with challenges. She had “aqueductal stenosis,” a blockage in her brain between two ventricles. Fluid compressed her brain, taking up most of her skull and pressing her brain into a small sliver…

Her name means “beautiful blessing” in Hawaiian: Mahniya, pronounced mah-NEEyah, so lovely and special and meaningful. So fitting, her mother says, because Mahniya Humphrey came into this world seven months ago with extraordinary challenges. Steve and Nicole Humphrey with their twins Mahniya and E.J. Contributed She and her twin brother, Elias Jackson, were born at…