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Woman’s Body Melts Like Butter
Korea Herald ^
| 2010-09-24
Posted on 09/25/2010 7:17:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Chinese woman is suffering from an extremely rare disease that literally disfigures her body, according to Express Gazeta.
The 43-year-old woman looks like a melted alien as the tissue of her body has been sagging for years.
The woman only identified with her surname Tan is in desperate condition and has no hope to have normal life again.
The disease, known as neurofibromatosis, is generically-inherited disorder in which the nerve tissue grows tumors that may be harmless or may cause serious damage by compressing nerves and other tissues, the report said.
Local doctors say the disease is not curable.
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
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To: nickcarraway
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09/25/2010 7:19:08 PM PDT
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al baby
(Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
To: al baby
You make a strong case for euthanasia.
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posted on
09/25/2010 7:21:32 PM PDT
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counterpunch
(Life in Prison: The RINO compromise to "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death")
To: al baby
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posted on
09/25/2010 7:23:16 PM PDT
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MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: MrEdd
I did not know that Rick Rolling was allowed on Freerepublic.
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posted on
09/25/2010 7:32:54 PM PDT
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ColdSteelTalon
(Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
To: ColdSteelTalon
It was self defense.
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posted on
09/25/2010 7:39:40 PM PDT
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MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: nickcarraway
Put her on Cyclosporine. She may even see reversal of symptoms. DO IT!
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posted on
09/25/2010 7:46:01 PM PDT
by
Doc Savage
(SOBAMP!)
To: ColdSteelTalon
Its a lot better than meatspin
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posted on
09/25/2010 7:47:24 PM PDT
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al baby
(Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
To: nickcarraway
generically-inheritedgenetically-inherited?
Spell-checkers are not context-checkers.
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posted on
09/25/2010 7:52:40 PM PDT
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Ol' Dan Tucker
(People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
To: al baby
There is no cure for ugly.
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posted on
09/25/2010 8:10:06 PM PDT
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bigbob
To: MrEdd
OMG, you are toooo funny.
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posted on
09/25/2010 8:11:22 PM PDT
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peggybac
(Restore America and restore her honor.)
To: nickcarraway
“Neurofibromatosis”
I had a friend with that disease. She had wart like lesions all over her body.
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09/25/2010 8:12:40 PM PDT
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Bronzy
To: al baby
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posted on
09/25/2010 8:29:29 PM PDT
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ColdSteelTalon
(Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
To: ColdSteelTalon
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posted on
09/25/2010 8:36:38 PM PDT
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al baby
(Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
To: al baby
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posted on
09/25/2010 9:30:47 PM PDT
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ColdSteelTalon
(Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
To: Bronzy
Formally called Elephant Man disease for 19th cent sufferer
John Merick
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posted on
09/25/2010 10:35:07 PM PDT
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njslim
To: Bronzy
***“Neurofibromatosis”***Also know as the elephant man disease...I only had 1 patient with it in 10 years of hospital nursing....her daughter had it also....
When I went to admit her to the floor she was surprised that I knew what it was, had just finished reading about the elephant man.....his was a extreme case....she had the fibrotumors on her arms and legs but not her face...Genetic, no cure, at least not when I was still working...
To: goat granny; njslim
I saw the movie about the Elephant Man. Disease is cruel.
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09/26/2010 7:49:12 AM PDT
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Bronzy
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