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Showing posts with label Illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illness. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Girl found with twin infant in stomach

In a rare case, a girl was found to have her own twin inside her stomach in a tumour. Doctors have estimated that the case in which one baby in a womb absorbs the other to be as low as 2 in a million, and it is a surprise when they actually see it happening. It is even more surprising that this was only found when she was 9 years old and complained of a pain in the stomach:


A nine-year-old girl who went to hospital suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors in central Greece said Thursday. Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo about six centimeters (more than two inches) long.
Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Sitting on a toilet for 2 years

Police and medical help personnel can come across many strange things, but this particular one would have been something that even they would not have expected. They reached a home in Kansas in response to a call to help - and what did they find ? They found a lady who had been sitting on a toilet for 2 years, and who was stuck on the toilet seat. Her skin had apparently grown around the seat, and the personnel had to pry the seat off and take it with her to hospital where it was removed. She was not cooperative during this period, but did finally agree to go to the hospital:


Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital. "We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."
Whipple said investigators planned to present their report Wednesday to the county attorney, who will determine whether any charges should be filed against the woman's 36-year-old boyfriend. The boyfriend called police on February 27 to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend," Whipple said, adding that he never explained why it took him two years to call. Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to her mid-thigh. She was "somewhat disoriented," and her legs looked like they had atrophied, Whipple said.


Her boyfriend must be equally weird, given that it took him 2 years to realize that maybe things were strange and that he needed help to resolve things.

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Couple re-united by illness

In a bitter-sweet affair, a couple married for a decade, had separated (but not divorced) more than 5 years back. They were seeing other people, and had divorce proceedings underway. But then a life-threatening situation brough the relationship alive again.
When the husband was hospitalized with kidney failure, the wife offered one of hers. When they had married, she had agreed to donate one if required; and she had known that he might need one because he had had juvenile diabetes. So, when the need came, even though they were separated, she still stood by her promise.
This gesture brough the couple back together, with no more talk of separation and divorce. Read this article over here.

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