Boy with rare deadly disease gets whole new skin

mercurynews.com/AP ^ | Maria Cheng

[sparklite2]

Wow.

[RoosterRedux]

I'm up to growing a few yards of my skin in a lab and replacing my aging but other wise OK skin.

Now if I can get some new joints...I am good to go for another couple o' hundred years.

[Red Badger]

Tequila is good for that...................

[RoosterRedux]

Tequila is good for everything except driving and love-making.

Re: love-making...the spirit is strong but the body is weak.

[higgmeister]

I'm up to growing a few yards of my skin in a lab and replacing my aging but other wise OK skin.

Now if I can get some new joints...I am good to go for another couple o' hundred years.

If you are a member of The Howard Families, don't tell anyone, for obvious reasons.

[Dante3]

Great story.

[humblegunner]

They grew sheets of the boy’s skin

That's the official story.

Actually several homeless and skinless persons were admitted to the city morgue shortly after.

[Gamecock]

Amazing stuff.

[Flick Lives]

Heinlein ping.

[posterchild]

A square meter is not 3 square feet. Someone didn’t think about what ‘square’ means.

[Sopater]

A square meter is not 3 square feet. Someone didn’t think about what ‘square’ means.

The engineer in me cringed when I read that, too. It would be closer to 9 ft^2.

[NEMDF]

HA. Yep. I went for a bone scan a few years back, to check for osteoporosis risk. My doc said my bones should hold up until I am about 200 yrs old.

[fruser1]

The press can’t add, let alone multiply, or convert metric to english.

This is part of the reason why they think communism works.

[bgill]

Way cool.

[pax_et_bonum]

Link, please.

:-)

[NorthstarMom]

I can’t imagine his pain. My son was two and a half when he had a reaction to the herpes (type 1!!!) virus. After a misdiagnosis delayed treatment he had to be admitted to the hospital for a morphine drip to. He had open skin over most of his body and was shaking in pain. When we finally got him into the dermatologist she teared up with me!

It was incredibly traumatic for him.

On a side note, how many moms have had the pleasure of seeing their three year old walk into the Fundamental Baptist in laws and loudly announce, “I had herpes!”?

[RoosterRedux]

God bless you and your beloved son.

What a wonderful story. Hang tough. The toughest job in the world is just being a mom.;

[Trillian]

That is amazing.

[piasa]

Almost 11 square feet of hide... wonder if they had to call in an upholstery specialist?