Girl born with "no face"

[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.

Agrees............................

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

[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.

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[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