chicagoburbite Posted August 28, 2006 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 28 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 418 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/16/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/13/1965 Share Posted August 28, 2006 To doctors the case may have been a medical miracle, but to Bhagat, his condition had been a source of shame and misery. All his life, people in the village where he lived had mercilessly teased him and told him he looked pregnant. Ironically, they were right - in a way. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=...&id=4489009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billie Posted August 28, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 51 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,849 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 14 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/17/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/17/1979 Share Posted August 28, 2006 That's crazy! Reminds me of that Stephen King book about the twins. Anybody know the name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladypeartree Posted August 28, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 37 Topic Count: 540 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 32,940 Content Per Day: 5.04 Reputation: 23,704 Days Won: 233 Joined: 06/21/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/23/1953 Share Posted August 28, 2006 poor man ...I have seen a documentry about this condition but never heard of it going on for so long ...at least if he becomes a father he should have more sympathy for his wife than most men have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsSealedEternal Posted August 28, 2006 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 474 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/31/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted August 28, 2006 I saw a commercial for this story on one on the major tv networks and wondered how they were going to explain this. Whew... I am relieved to find out that no one was claiming a hoax that a man could become pregnant in the way a woman does. I didn't care for the way they kept referring to the twin as a parasite. The images sound quite disturbing. Doctors must need nerves of steel... Beyond bizarre... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted August 28, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.94 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted August 28, 2006 I saw this before, too, on TV. A rare case of a twin - or what would have been a twin - living inside someone as a parasite. And on TV, we did see images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giaour Posted August 28, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 179 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3,941 Content Per Day: 0.55 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/28/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/08/1964 Share Posted August 28, 2006 ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww just ewwwwwwwwwwww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsSealedEternal Posted August 28, 2006 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 474 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/31/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted August 28, 2006 I saw this before, too, on TV. A rare case of a twin - or what would have been a twin - living inside someone as a parasite. And on TV, we did see images. Well, it just reminded me of the way some refer to their unborn children as parasites and it rubbed me the wrong way. Whatever happened to this soul, God knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billie Posted August 28, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 51 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,849 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 14 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/17/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/17/1979 Share Posted August 28, 2006 I saw this before, too, on TV. A rare case of a twin - or what would have been a twin - living inside someone as a parasite. And on TV, we did see images. Well, it just reminded me of the way some refer to their unborn children as parasites and it rubbed me the wrong way. Whatever happened to this soul, God knows. He went to be with Jesus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsSealedEternal Posted August 28, 2006 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 474 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/31/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted August 28, 2006 I saw this before, too, on TV. A rare case of a twin - or what would have been a twin - living inside someone as a parasite. And on TV, we did see images. Well, it just reminded me of the way some refer to their unborn children as parasites and it rubbed me the wrong way. Whatever happened to this soul, God knows. He went to be with Jesus. When that happened... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted August 29, 2006 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.94 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted August 29, 2006 I saw this before, too, on TV. A rare case of a twin - or what would have been a twin - living inside someone as a parasite. And on TV, we did see images. Well, it just reminded me of the way some refer to their unborn children as parasites and it rubbed me the wrong way. Whatever happened to this soul, God knows. No, that's not what was meant at all! From the article: "Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions - fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that involves a fetus getting trapped inside of its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cord-like structure that leeches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene. Fetus in fetu happens very early in a twin pregnancy, when one fetus wraps around and envelops the other. The dominant fetus grows, while the fetus that would have been its twin lives on throughout the pregnancy, feeding off its host twin like a kind of parasite. Usually, both twins die before birth from the strain of sharing a placenta. However, sometimes, as in Bhagat's case, the host twin survives and is delivered. What makes his case so unusual is that no one suspected Bhagat had a twin inside him for 36 years. Bhagat said he was very much relieved after his operation. He was not interested in knowing what Mehta did to him or seeing what he had removed from his abdomen. " The twin perished before birth. However, what was left of its body was "feeding" off the man. The body grew, but it contained no life in it. The use of "pregnancy" and "giving birth" were in poor taste with the article, I would agree - But it should never be compared to a true pregnancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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