"Tree Man"

[Rill22]

For 20 years Dede Koswara lived covered in warts with huge tree-like growths encasing his limbs.

Today Dede, whose plight was highlighted on the Telegraph website, can once more use his hands and walk without pain.

He can see the outline of his toes for the first time in over a decade after medics cut more than 4lbs of warty horns from his legs and feet.

He really does look like a tree.

Edit: I searched for it, piss off.

 

[Nitemare]

Wow, docs cut off 4 lbs of wood

 

[jonks]

nuh uh, this aint it. Click the 2 faced baby link or the smallest girl link for some freaky stuff. Face-eating tumor guy is good too. He coulda got a job at mos eisley

 

[Rill22]

Originally posted by: sirjonk
Face-eating tumor guy is good too.

Jeebus. :Q

 

[BrokenVisage]

Reminds me of the curse that gypsy put on the crooked judge in Stephen King's Thinner. Damn that's gotta suck.

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: Rill22

Originally posted by: sirjonk
Face-eating tumor guy is good too.

Jeebus. :Q

I saw a pod on Current (Cable TV station) about a man with the same affliction. Cool story.

 

[BrokenVisage]

double post? AT is crawling for me..

 

[alien42]

re...re...re...i cant bring myself to say it so....

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=38&threadid=2143149
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=38&threadid=2143207

 

[MotionMan]

The tree man and the face eating tumor are probably the grossest things I have seen in a long, long time.

I really feel sorry for them.

I need to go home and hug my kids.

MotionMan

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: MotionMan
The tree man and the face eating tumor are probably the grossest things I have seen in a long, long time.

I really feel sorry for them.

I need to go home and hug my kids.

MotionMan

Seriously. It's not even possible to imagine what it's like to go through that.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: alien42
re...re...re...i cant bring myself to say it so....

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=38&threadid=2143149
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=38&threadid=2143207

This is more of an update, plus those threads are 3 months old!

MotionMan

 

[Eli]

Whoa.

That's crazy. We really take our immune systems for granted........

We would all be mangled and diseased without it. And dead.

I'm curious though. I'd like more specifics on his immune disease. Is he sickly, in general? Or is it only a certain type of immune cell that would have an impact on fighting HPV, but perhaps not more normal threats like cold and flu?

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: alien42
re...re...re...i cant bring myself to say it so....

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=38&threadid=2143149
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=38&threadid=2143207

lol one of those is mine.

 

[Baked]

What do you get if you put the tree man and the ax-man in the same room?