On the 11th March 2008, I reported on a story of the ‘Tree Root Man‘ who lived in Java. His name is Dede Koswara and he has lived for 20 years with huge tree-like growths covering his limbs.
Now Dede is hoping to get married after doctors have performed not one, but four major operations to [...]

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Tree Root Man Has Successful Operation
Joy Ryder - Monday 14.04.08, 17:32pm
Tags: Disease And Illness · Rare Conditions
Indian Man Gives Birth To His Twin
Joy Ryder - Thursday 13.03.08, 20:00pm
This is the story of an Indian man, called Sanju Bhagat from Nagpur in India who carried the parasitic twin inside his stomach for 36 years.
This phenomenon actually occurs in 1 out of every 500,000 live births. It takes place very early in a twin pregnancy, when one fetus wraps around and envelopes the [...]
Tags: Rare Conditions · Strange But True
The Man With The Face-Eating Tumour
Joy Ryder - Wednesday 12.03.08, 22:03pm
Jose Mestre, 51 years old, started with a smallish tumour on his lip in adolescence, he now has a bloody tumour that obliterates his face.
Jose is a Jehovah’s Witness and for years has refused any sort of surgery on this terrible facial mutation but he has now been given hope by a British doctor and [...]
Tags: Disease And Illness · Rare Conditions
The Tree Root Man
Joy Ryder - Tuesday 11.03.08, 17:35pm
This is the story of Dede, a 35 year old Indonesian fisherman who has become known worldwide as the ‘tree root man’ and Dr Anthony Gaspari, a dermatology expert at the University of Maryland in the US, who tracked him down in the jungle and begins to develop a cure.
The ‘roots’ in question began to [...]
Tags: Disease And Illness · Rare Conditions
Conjoined Twins Refuse To Be Seperated
Joy Ryder - Sunday 09.03.08, 17:09pm
The world’s oldest conjoined twins, Abigail and Brittany Hensel, have reportedly refused an operation to separate them even if it was possible.
The girls who have just celebrated their 18th birthday’s said “We don’t know any other way of living and don’t want to go through surgery, said Abigail. Even if it worked, we wouldn’t [...]
Tags: Rare Conditions







