MIDLAND, Texas -- Jessica McClure, the 20-month-old toddler stuck in an abandoned well for three days before her rescue in October, won't get any Christmas presents this year because her parents say she already has had too many gifts.
The Postal Service drops off 15 to 20 letters and packages to Jessica's home daily.
Her parents, Chip and Cissy, both 18, are trying to determine how to distribute some of the thousands of Jessica's presents to needy children, Cecelia Proctor, one of Jessica's aunts said.
Cissy McClure also extended Christmas wishes Thursday to the city of Midland.
'I'd like to say I hope their Christmas is as nice as ours and they helped make it nice,' she said. 'I'd like to tell everybody thank you for everything that they've done and thank the Lord for saving our baby and bringing her back to us.'
The little girl who won the hearts of people world-wide wears a cast on her still-swollen right leg to protect skin grafts from bumps against furniture or the ground, said her plastic surgeon, Dr. Terry Tubb.
She was trapped for 58 hours in October without food or water in an abandoned well in the back yard of her aunt's home in Midland. She has undergone surgery six times, and doctors had to amputate the little toe on her right foot.
For this Christmas, Jessica's parents have advised relatives that no gifts will be allowed, said Proctor, who was upset she cannot give the little girl a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer candy cane she made for her.
