[joesbucks]

There was a story on National Geographic or Discovery channel recently that had a little boy from around India that had a sibling "living" in him. The sibling was obviously quite dead, but continued to grow like a growth or parasite off the young guy. Similar characteristics that you describe.

[CDHart]

Sort of gives you the shivers, doesn't it? The teratoma that my daughter had was growing, which is how they knew there was a problem. But a teratoma is a lot better than ovarian cancer, which is what we were afraid of.

Carolyn