March 13, 2007: Horrid skin condition
 

http://cellar.org/2007/EasternEurope...Condition1.jpg

Spacecow finds this really bizarre one at the blog of radio station WFMU. The story:
The condition is described as possibly being "Lewandowsky-Lutz syndrome":
http://cellar.org/2007/EasternEurope...Condition2.jpg

http://cellar.org/2007/EasternEurope...Condition4.jpg

http://cellar.org/2007/EasternEurope...Condition6.jpg

Mmm...

There goes my lunch. :right:

That pic reminds me of this.

:eek:

(note to self-when the headline reads "horrid skin condition", DON'T OPEN IT!!!)

:vomit:

Dude. It's lunch time on the East Coast.

OK. I closed the window and finished my lunch. For some reason it was the foot picture that grossed me out the most. The others were so alien that they didn't quite register as gross.

I feel for this poor guy. Not only does he have to live with this affliction, it's pre-cancerous and is likely to kill him.

Hopefully these photos shooting across the web will result in some dermatologist somewhere taking care of this guy for the bragging rights.

I'd cut off my hands.

That was initially pretty hard to look at let alone work on but dermatologists must be hardened to all sorts of things.

The guy looks pretty fit, like he does physical work, but I can't imagine he has a lot of functionality left in his hands.

I wonder how long it took from the first sign to this mess? Also, did he try cutting them off in the beginning?

Obviously, somebody must be caring for him, wonder if he's married? Imagine having that happen to your parent, knowing it's hereditary. :eek:
Would you have kids?

That's scary--it's so bad it looks like it can't possibly be real.

The link said that about a decade ago he burned off some that were on his feet, and they didn't come back. He had that treatment about a decade ago, and let it go for a decade until it got to this point and the missionary found him. I wonder why he wouldn't keep cutting and cauterizing the things if it was successful. Even if that procedure was painful, it has to be better than living like this.

how the heck did he get the sweater on? I wonder what super powers came with the affliction? and what title? Barnicle Boy? The Tickler?

Having suffered from a chronic and debilitating skin condition for 30 years, I have nothing but empathy for the gentleman. The pain and embarrassment from this is overwhelming. This man needs your compassion, not your jokes.

I don't think either will affect him one way or the other, though. :headshake

the world needs my jokes to help deal with the grief they feel for you and others like you. you poor, poor man. here, let me hold you.

It looks an awful lot like the coating on Hot 'N' Spicy chicken from KFC. I don't think I will ever eat Hot 'N' Spicy again without thinking of those hands.

Thanks for that thought Kingswood. Now you've also ruined it for the rest of us!

That poor man. :( It seems he felt that whilst cauterizing successfully got rid of the old growths, new ones grew faster afterwards. kind like pulling up a dandelion but not getting all of the root. Suddently my eczema doesn't seem so bad.

Finger lickin' good.

Oh FFS! Just stop. I'm not opening this thread again.

where does this dude buy gloves?
 

socks seem implausible (lots of those damn ctachy threads)
and bowling (as the keeper of the book of armaments would say) is "right out".

i like ilikechees already

sheesh...it's not like he's a rapist or something

That's Disgusting with a capital "D"

Ditto.

How does he wipe his butt?

I have eczema too and was thinking the same thing! :eek:

he's about 40 and still sharing a bed with his brother. imagine them being in a small bed with you :S

Dunno, but scratching it sure isn't a problem:sweat:

I just stumbled on a followup to this story, the guy is getting some treatment:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/0...nary_enco.html

A different guy with the same (or a similar) condition, referenced here.

Very carefully!!!!!


Also, I'm guessing that there's not much in the way of masturbation going on...:headshake

There was an article about this man (I think it's the same man) on Foxnews recently (www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,812103,0.html). The good news is , there may be a treatment. I hope so.

Never fails to amaze me just how spectacularly wrong the human body can go. The tiniest flaw at the smallest level and boom....your life's marked in bold and underlined.

Jackalope bunny feels his pain.

What amazes me is that it is just a regular wart virus finding someone whose immune system is vulnerable to it.

:checks anti-virus software:

It also seems odd that it attacks the extremities - hands, feet, and head. Anyone care to guess why?

I don't know, but a lot of different skin conditions do that, especially if you add in the groin area.

As a scientist, if I had to take a wild and completely uneducated guess based purely on guesswork backed up by some college?

The body, as I'm sure everyone knows this much at least, grows in stages.

You start with a single cell; which starts its rapid dividing. If it avoids an overdose of Plan B, it eventually develops into a blastocyst and then gastrualizes (? too uncoffeed to check my own spelling). So, then what we have is the beginning of differentiation as the cells begin to move about to where they're going to end up in the finalized organism. Not quite 'stem cells' but not quite "Cell #228347 in the ring finger of the right hand".

So you have a circle, a dented in circle, a neural crest starts, etc, and you have a head, a 'body' and a 'tail' .. then arms and legs start to develop, then fingers and toes (and dare I say genitals). Now if this is some sort of pappilomavirus transmitted from mother to son, as was the one thought, he was infected in vivo, I guess.. autosomal, again, the same issue. So the hands/feet/etc are the 'least differentiated' cells of our bodies timewise-line, even though with people, we can't cut off an arm and have it grow back (though with some lizards and the like, it can, as the cells can defifferentiate again and grow a new limb, though I suspect if you cut out a non-vital section of their torso (Say chest muscle), the same effect would not occur).

(takes a big breath) SO that's one reason.

Also this is a keratinized disorder - keratin and keratinized cells hang out in the skin, but most keratin production is likely highly concentrated in hands and feet where the body makes fingernails and toenails. Let's just be happy this doesn't seem to spread randomly to hair follicles (at least not ones far beyond the hands and feet), or worse than just looking ugly, this poor guy would be dead.

So.. no wonder he was whisked off in an ambulance. Some labs would kill for that kind of a phenomenon to study.

Interesting...
I'm not certain about this guy but the Indonesian "Tree-Man" guy we also had recently was definitely adult-onset, having an infected cut while working.
I was thinking more in terms of less blood-flow to the extremities and more skin/volume ratio, meaning fewer white blood cells to fight more bugs.
The keratin point is a good one; especially if we include facial hair.
Hmmmmm....

Oh my, I didn't know jackalopes were real.

I feel sorry for the guy but does anyone know how I can give that condition to another person or people? Specifically my in-laws.

Morie
www.anthology.page.tl

Damn you SDRTG! I didn't need to see that again. Of course that didn't stop me from bumping it for the rest of you.

OMG jackalopes are real.

Just noticed a description of "My Shocking Story" on TLC tonight - 7 PM Central - that says "An Indonesian of a remote village has incredible rootlike growths on his body." Sounds like this guy, doesn't it?

Can we PLEASE leave this miserable thread die!!!

I took me weeks to get it out of my mind. Every time I think of it the bile rises in my throat.

Man just let it go... PLEASE...

&*^^%)*%^&!! Dammit.

Just change the channel. And try not to think about the recipe.