Posted on 06/27/2015 11:19:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Suffers from rare and fatal condition called progeria
Ana Rochelle Pondare seen here with her idol Filipino super-star Sarah Geronimo. (Instagram/YouTube) An 18-year-old Filipina has a body of a woman aged 144.
According to a report in'Asiaone', Ana Rochelle Pondare suffers from a rare and fatal genetic condition called progeria, which causes her body to age 10 times faster than normal.
Life expectancy of those suffering from this condition is an average 14 years. So, Pondare's 18th birthday was a momentous occasion as she lived well past her prognosis.
And one of Pondare's birthday wishes was to meet Sarah Geronimo, Filipino singer, actress and television personality. She posed for a selfie with her idol on her big day.
According to the Progeria Research Foundation, there are currently 80 children in the world who suffer from the condition .
Awww...sweet picture.
Very sad & strange. Maybe she can at least help us understand better the aging process.
God bless her. I cannot imagine how tough that would be.
with today’s science, is it really that difficult to take the dna from her and her parents, then compare to see the differences?
how can they not spot the sequences in question?
does she have siblings? if she does, that should help the process.
Progeria is well known and has been studied extensively. There is no cure.
yeah, but my life still stinks
Definitely.
Progeria is more interesting than the average disease. This is because understanding progeria might lead to a cure to a far more common disease.
In the meantime, consider progeria as a convenient biological analogy to Progressivism. Different types of afflicted organism, but same result!
I went and found a video about her on Youtube. Turns out that she was also abused by her father and his relatives. Her father would beat her when her mother wasn’t at home. What a terrible thing to happen to anyone...let alone someone who has such a disease. I hope her birthday was happy.
Poor girl.
She looks better than Lindasy Lohan though.
What is odd was another case where a girl stopped aging at three. She was in her teens but had the mind and body of a three year old.... a case of reverse progeria. She recently passed away i think.
I pulled my shoulder yesterday. When you see someone jerking weights in a video, don’t do like that.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.