Girl born with "no face"

[Spicker]

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/video/player320.aspx?aid=34965&bw=

very sad

[mogadishu]

oh god this is so fucked up... that is so nasty. she looks like chucky. im sorry but those closeups are so disturbing.

[DarthInsinuate]

i can't view the video, so i'm just going to post an inappropiate comic

http://www.bubblegun.com/toons/images/hace1.gif

[thecreator89]

:angry:
I feel sorry for the girl
There's no reason to ridicule her

[ziggyjuarez]

:) No Comment

[dsa16]

oh god this is so fucked up... that is so nasty. she looks like chucky. im sorry but those closeups are so disturbing.

Wow you’re accepting of others,

This is such a sad story, makes you appreciated that you have a normal life.

[cpt_azad]

dude....no, may god make her life as easy as possible, no one deserves this.

[cpt_azad]

i can't view the video, so i'm just going to post an inappropiate comic

http://www.bubblegun.com/toons/images/hace1.gif

dude, that's uncalled for. go rot in hell :dry:

[Spicker]

its very depressing to see her live like that... :no:

and yes she has a tube going to her stomach...thats how shes fed... :crying:

[Rip The Jacker]

For some reason I can't view the video, but just this threads title itself is depressing. :(

[bujub22]

wow that jus wow :blink:

[Skiz]

I thinks she's probably getting to the age where she can tell that she's different, and that is sad. :no:

[Monkeee]

poor girl....... :(

makes me sad wondering how she's gonna get through school :(

[Virtualbody1234]

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[Skiz]

http://img29.exs.cx/img29/3114/none7xs.gif

OMG...That is so wrong in so many ways....

But I am trying not laugh at the same time.:ph34r:

[Virtualbody1234]

OMG...That is so wrong in so many ways....

But I am trying not laugh at the same time.:ph34r:
I know it's wrong but I just had to do it anyway.


About the girl... It's sad but she seems to have a great spirit.

[MediaSlayer]

Never, ever google for "harlequin fetus".

[Monkeee]

Never, ever google for "harlequin fetus".
you pretty much just said "do it"

[MediaSlayer]

ok, well do it but be careful, i guess:/

[Skiz]

Never, ever google for "harlequin fetus".
I think Ive seen enough

[cpt_azad]

you pretty much just said "do it"
ya, i gotta go with monkeee on this one, it's like advertising it to us :ph34r: :no:

[Keikan]

is she gonna get surgery? i think i seen dis before

[MediaSlayer]

well, i wish someone had warned ME the first time i came across it in a chat room. i completely underestimated how bad it could possibly be, and was regretting it dearly. that's all i meant. :(

[cpt_azad]

well, i'm desensitized so it makes no difference to me in my life, things like this stay with me for 5 min, then POOF it's gone.

[LoobiLou]

That poor little girl :( Hopefully in a few years there'll be the technological advances to do more reconstructive and plastic surgery to help her

[Samurai]

There's a couple of real insensitive people in here. Grow up!

My heart goes out to this little girl and her family. She seems to have such a loving family, that I believe they'll make the most out of it.


This is such a sad story, makes you appreciated that you have a normal life.

Nicely said.

[ziggyjuarez]

dude, that's uncalled for. go rot in hell :dry:
If eny1 should rot in hell its you hitler:dry:

[100%]

This is terrible
like someone stated earlier she is still a child and once she realizes her difference.....right know she is a happy child.

Interesting the way they filmed it - focusing on her body, for a long time hiding the face - which made the suspense and shock even worse.


The little girl does have a face - and nice that the title is not elephant-man-phreak style as people did in earlier times

[sArA]

so sad....I can't see how plastic surgery could ever make her 'normal'. She is gonna have it tough no matter how much her family support her. It just brings it home how lucky we 'normal' ones are....we have no cause for complaint about the occasional spot, scar or less than perfect body or face.

[Skiz]

She will probably wear some sort of prosthethic face, or a mask to be simple. I saw a guy on tv once that caught some sort of flesh eating virus and it ate the center of his face and he used a mask type of thing.

[exo_body]

yeah sara your right, it really makes your think and appreciate ourselves more

[backlash]

She will probably wear some sort of prosthethic face, or a mask to be simple. I saw a guy on tv once that caught some sort of flesh eating virus and it ate the center of his face and he used a mask type of thing.

yeah, I saw that show and the mask was very effective.

This poor girl..and her family. :'( I don't know why these kinds of things have to happen in life. I just don't know why. Maybe we need to have situations like this in order to appreciate what we DO have. That is the only explanation I can think of.

At least she is happy - and that is all we can wish for her.

[Arm]

OMG...That is so wrong in so many ways....

But I am trying not laugh at the same time.:ph34r:
:ermm: Agrees............................

And googling "harlequin fetus" makes going to stlouispubliclibrary.com seem pretty tame. :unsure:

[SeK612]

This condition, a severely escalated (and thankfully rare) type of ichthyosis, is invariably fatal within a few days of birth (if even it lives that long). It is marked by skin so hardened that cracks develop where folds would be seen in a normal baby. The condition was first observed in South Carolina by Reverend Oliver Hart.

"On Thursday, April ye 5, 1750, I went to see a most deplorable object of a child, born the night before of one Mary Evans in "Chas"town. It was surprising to all who beheld it, and I scarcely know how to describe it. The skin was dry and hard and seemed to be cracked in many places, somewhat resembling the scales of a fish. The mouth was large and round and open. It had no external nose, but two holes where the nose should have been. The eyes appeared to be lumps of coagulated blood, turned out, about the bigness of a plum, ghastly to behold. It had no external ears, but holes where the ears should be. The hands and feet appeared to be swollen, were cramped up and felt quite hard. The back part of the head was much open. It made a strange kind of noise, very low, which I cannot describe. It lived about forty-eight hours and was alive when I saw it. "

I do not have a photograph of a harlequin fetus to show you, and am not certain I would do so even had I such a picture. This is my most feared of deformities; it has caused me fits of cold sweat and palsy to view. Even today.

Update here: Ms. Kristy Milland of the Birth Disorder Information Directory was kind enough to send me this link to a case study that includes a fine image of the sort I above did not have. Or so I surmise-- naturally I have not been able to bring myself to look at it head on. Although you're free to do so. Carry on.

Source (http://www.onigami.net/lafcursiax/mirabilis/harlequin.html)

[Spam-King]

please stop

[ahctlucabbuS]

Truly sad indeed.

Best of luck to her in life.

[LilAznAccommodator]

Bleh I just watched this and wow... that sucks ass... But in another sense.. it is cool because of the fact taht she has a way of making peopel love her.. more or less that whoel huggint hing.. =/


Yeah life is just full of surprises...

[Monkeee]

what would you guys do in if that ever happened to you? not showing any disrespect but what would you guys do if this situtation ever came up? i would seriously commit suicide. knowing if i ever went out side and people staring at me... it just would tare me apart :(

feel sorry for the girl