Category: Personal Stories

Wyoming Man Has Vasectomy At 28

Like many men, Toby Byrum decided to have a vasectomy to end his reproductive years. Unlike most of them, Byrum had his at the age of 28 while he is still single and childless. Two years later, the Web consultant from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has no regrets. “I view the next 15-20 years of my [...]

Oct 03, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

Tiny brain, normal life

French doctors are puzzling over the case of 44-year-old civil servant who has led a quite normal life — but with an extraordinarily tiny brain. In a case history published in next Saturday’s Lancet, doctors led by Lionel Feuillet of the Hopital de la Timone in Marseille say the father-of-two was admitted to hospital after [...]

Jul 21, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

‘My lungs are damaged beyond repair’

*Smoking cannabis can cause severe lung damage* The holes in Samantha Wilson’s lungs are getting bigger. There is no cure for her illness and if it continues to get worse it will eventually kill her. Samantha is 37 and has emphysema, a progressive condition normally associated with older people who have smoked tobacco regularly throughout [...]

Jun 03, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

Disfiguring skin disease plagues Afghanistan

The 10-year-old Afghan girl has big eyes, a shy smile and a dark lesion speckled with blood on her right cheek. The girl has leishmaniasis, a disease caused by a parasite transmitted by a tiny sandfly that can lead to severe scarring, often on the face. The girl, Sahima, wearing a purple tunic and trousers [...]

May 07, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

‘I was born without womb’

It was not until Jay Fletcher first had sex that she realised there was something wrong – the pain was excruciating. Friends and family said a little pain was not unusual the first time, but 17-year-old Jay knew this was different. Doctors carried out tests and found that, although she had working ovaries, her womb [...]

May 01, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

Missoula woman fighting for her medical marijuana

Montana is one of a dozen states that has a passed a medical marijuana law which allows for the use and growth of marijuana for medical treatment. But a discrepancy between state and federal law is having a personal effect on one woman from Missoula. Robin Prosser says she relies on her two ounces of [...]

Apr 04, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post
The Woman Who is Allergic to Cell Phones and Microwaves

The Woman Who is Allergic to Cell Phones and Microwaves

*Debbie and her husband Tony often sleep in a silver-plated mosquito net* For most people talking on a mobile phone, cooking dinner in the microwave or driving in a car is simply part of modern living in 21st century Britain. But completing any such tasks is impossible for Debbie Bird – because she is allergic [...]

Mar 22, 2007 | 1 comment | View Post

Woman grows nipple on foot

A 22-year-old woman sought medical care for a lesion in the plantar region of her left foot, a well-formed nipple surrounded by areola and hair. Microscopic examination of the dermis showed hair follicles, eccrine glands, and sebaceous glands. Fat tissue was noted at the base of the lesion. Clinical and histopathologic findings were consistent with [...]

Mar 19, 2007 | 54 comments | View Post

Girl’s 5 Weeks of Hiccups Finally End

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — She sipped pickle juice, held her breath, breathed into a bag, even went to a neurologist, but for more than five weeks nothing would stop a 15-year-old girl’s rapid hiccups — until they finally just stopped on their own. After trying countless remedies and attracting national media attention, Jennifer Mee [...]

Mar 02, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

200 lb. 8 year old

British social workers decided on Tuesday to allow an eight-year-old boy who weighs almost 200 lb (90 kg) to remain at home with his mother, even though she has refused to stop feeding him junk food. Connor McCreaddie’s mother says her 196-lb (89 kg) son will not eat healthy food like fruits and vegetables and [...]

Feb 27, 2007 | 3 comments | View Post
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