So I was watching The Inside Edition on ETC this afternoon and I had the shock of my day. It was such a grotesque and sorry sight. There was this segment about a 33 year-old woman named Mandy Sellars who has a Proteus Sydrome. It is a very rare sydrome that causes the legs to keep on expanding throughout one's lifetime because of abnormal skin and limb growth. My heart went out to Mandy. It was nearly impossible to live a normal with her condition; what with her outrageously large-sized legs. Can you just imagine a frail-looking woman dragging two giant legs [which weighs 200+ lbs. each by the way] every freakin' day? That's just absolutely crazy! Crutches, wheelchair and special car are what she used to get around but they're not much help. Watching her make just a slight move, while she shows her daily routines, tremendously pained me. And hearing her talk about how she would always get ridiculed and laughed at because of her situation just killed me.
The doctors say the only possible solution is to go through a very risky amputation of the said "giant legs". But still it won't do much help because there's a huge possibility that she won't be able to walk and sit up afterwards. :( Her situation is getting worse each day; the doctors can't even explain why Mandy's legs just keeps on growing and growing.
Go and take a look at this pics: So I was watching The Inside Edition on ETC this afternoon and I had the shock of my day. It was such a grotesque and sorry sight. There was this segment about a 33 year-old woman named Mandy Sellars who has a Proteus Sydrome. It is a very rare sydrome that causes the legs to keep on expanding throughout one's lifetime because of abnormal skin and limb growth. My heart went out to Mandy. It was nearly impossible to live a normal with her condition; what with her outrageously large-sized legs. Can you just imagine a frail-looking woman dragging two legs which weighs 200+ lbs. every freakin' day? That's just absolutely crazy! She uses crutches, wheelchair and a special car to get around. Watching her make just a slight move, while she shows her daily routines, tremendously pained me. And hearing her talk about how she would always get ridiculed and laughed at because of her situation just killed me.
The doctors say the only possible solution is to go through a very risky amputation of the said "giant legs". But still it won't do much help because there's a huge possibility that she won't be able to walk and sit up afterwards. :( Her situation is getting worse each day; the doctors can't even explain why Mandy's legs just keeps on growing and growing.
Go and take a look at this pics to see what I'm talking about:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/life-style/2008/08/14/doctors-don-t-know-why-my-legs-are-getting-bigger-115875-20697469/
07 November, 2008
my evanescence
Sometimes, the first guess will usually be the right one. For instance, when I see other people staring at me, or visiting my online site(s) and reading my blog; I'm pretty sure they're thinking about what an emotional mess I must be considering how pathetic all my posts are... but if they took the time to get to know a little bit about me, they would soon discover that I can be a pretty nice person. On the other hand, if they REALLY took the time to get to know a lot about me, then they would realize that they were completely right the first time.
Same thing with the last guy I dated. The first few months I knew him I thought that he was the nicest, most wonderful guy I have ever been with... But after I told him how I felt about him, us, my life.. he wasn't exactly the nicest one anymore. Sometimes my being disappointed by him could take weeks to fully get over. It would frustrate me so much because I had created this amazing picture in my mind of how wonderful I thought this person really was... until I discovered that he can be different, completely and totally different. I suppose everyone experiences this feeling of being betrayed by one's self and by that one person in their life at one time or another.
Sadly, in the process of recognizing this, I've become disoriented and lost the essence of who I really am... And it's one of the biggest reasons for all of my failure. I once read that the main thing you need to achieve success is to be your own best friend... but I don't even like who I am anymore. The most important thing to remember is regardless of how disappointed this made me feel, I have to find a way to continue to love myself since that is the only person I will never be able to get away from!
Same thing with the last guy I dated. The first few months I knew him I thought that he was the nicest, most wonderful guy I have ever been with... But after I told him how I felt about him, us, my life.. he wasn't exactly the nicest one anymore. Sometimes my being disappointed by him could take weeks to fully get over. It would frustrate me so much because I had created this amazing picture in my mind of how wonderful I thought this person really was... until I discovered that he can be different, completely and totally different. I suppose everyone experiences this feeling of being betrayed by one's self and by that one person in their life at one time or another.
Sadly, in the process of recognizing this, I've become disoriented and lost the essence of who I really am... And it's one of the biggest reasons for all of my failure. I once read that the main thing you need to achieve success is to be your own best friend... but I don't even like who I am anymore. The most important thing to remember is regardless of how disappointed this made me feel, I have to find a way to continue to love myself since that is the only person I will never be able to get away from!
it's a blog thing!
HEYA! So i just started this new blog. This is what BOREDOM does to me. Not that I hate it; it's prolly a great outlet for my ranting and bitching. Haha! I admit I'm still kind of clueless with all these HTML sh*t; it still pretty much confuses me. I know, I know... I'm such a LEWSSAR... :)
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