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/
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- It would be rather difficult to describe myself as I am never the same person twice. I am a different person with each of my friends depending on their needs and styles of thought. I think act, feel, and respond when in the company of one friend differently than I do with another. The differences are subtle but still there. Some of my ways of being are kept back in the shadows with certain people and are brought into the forefront when with others. I have never seen the complete me, just certain parts at different times. I look at myself like a jigsaw puzzle that hasn't been completed, I can see some of me here and some over here and several other pieces scattered around, even some pieces that are still laying face down, but never the complete picture of who I am. Basically, I'm a positive and life-affirming person. To cut the story short... I can describe how I perceive myself to be, and I can describe how various other people see me, but the person that is TRULY "me" is a different girl to every person who sees me.
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