Half-Man Half-Tree
17 April, 2008: A startling look at one of the most unusual medical conditions on earth; an Indonesian man has become half-man and half ‘tree’ with legs and arms resembling stumps and branches.

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-au&brand=ninemsn&vid=d1db1159-519c-4bbd-ad3f-f884f190f5d3

this shit is fucked up

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That's just crazy.

He has kids!

i've seen this b4; it is really sad.

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w291/xiemlai/Voz%20icon%20II/sad.jpg

That is unreal

wow, he should mount a platform to his chest and rent himself out for a deer stand during hunting season. his money problems would be solved.

poor bastard

wow, he should mount a platform to his chest and rent himself out for a deer stand during hunting season. his money problems would be solved.

nah, he would not be able to afford the insurance he'd be required to obtain for such an endeavor, i don't think.

:sifone:

poor guy...damn

My roomie and I watched that shit on TV... I almost fuckin barfed. I don't normally feel sorry for anybody, but I felt really bad for that dude. I would have shot myself long ago if my massive, deformed tree hands could pull a trigger.

They already found a cure for him actually from what i read awhile back..

yea i seen a pic of that dude, i wanna make a guitar from him

They already found a cure for him actually from what i read awhile back..

ah shit

horrible

im sure he would pwn in mma

yeh i saw a doco on this cunt on tv the other week, him and 6 or so other freaks, travel around the country in a freakshow, getting exploited by some dude , onthe doco they said they found a cure that would get rid of most of it, but than it ended without telling you what happend wtf

Wonder if he got the cure. He's probably dead by now.

I had to google more information on this guy. Here are some links. On the last link there is a comment by someone saying they emailed discovery channel about him. He was told in the email that dede is now getting help for his condition.

There doesnt seem to be any information anywhere on if it worked or not. But they said it would be a few months for the medicine to take effect. This story from all the dates on the articles seems to be from the end of last year, so he might not even be close to done with treatment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1569156/Tree-man-'who-grew-roots'-may-be-cured.html

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/myshockingstory/halfman/index.shtml

http://www.yellow-llama.com/half-man-half-tree/

According to wiki there pretty much is no cure once you let it get out of hand, so i guess this guy is fucked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermodysplasia_verruciformis
A totally effective treatment method against EV has not yet been found. However, several treatments have been suggested, and acitretin 0.5–1 mg/day for 6 months’ duration is the most effective treatment owing to antiproliferative and differentiation-inducing effects. Interferons can also be used effectively together with retinoids. Cimetidine was reported to be effective because of its depressing mitogen-induced lymphocyte proliferation and Regulatory T cell activity features. However, a report by Oliveria et al. showed that cimetidine was ineffective. Hayashi et al. applied topical calcipotriol to a patient with a successful result.

As mentioned, various treatment methods are offered against EV; however, most importantly, education of the patient, early diagnosis and excision of the tumoral lesions take preference to prevent the development of cutaneous tumors.

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