Sunday, December 22, 2013

Sarah Atwell tells her suffering from "Elephant Man Disease"

It's "Elephant Man disease". One of the very rare diseases which occur to a person within a million people , when we back to history , we find that a very small number of people diagnosed with this deadly disease . The first person who suffered from this disease was Joseph Merrick , that was at the end of the nineteenth century , now , at this time, the disease came back again and that a girl called "Sarah Atwell" has been injured with the same disease "Elephant Man Disease", so doctors re memorized that disease and how could they cure it again.



"Elephant Man disease" is a swelling of neurofibromatosis , and its symptoms was the same symptoms that appeared on the " Sarah " when she was hit by the disease . But the symptoms of the disease that appeared on Sarah were less severe than the symptoms that hit Joseph in the past. The symptoms appeared clearly on her face and some parts of her body . Sarah yielded to an intense therapeutic examination to diagnose the disease accurately , and a big staff of doctors and specialists studied Sarah's case carefully. We note also that a documentary film made about the disease when it infected Joseph of several years ago. The purpose of the film was to display the mental and health state of Joseph when he was hit by the disease.

"Elephant Man disease" is a hereditary strike that create a neuromas Levy , and this disturbs the growth of cells in the nervous system and this leads to create tumors in different places in the body.

Sarah tells the her story , she says she was in the third grade when she was hit by the disease , her friends called here with a bad names like " the ugly " and " the fat face " and this affected on her psychological state a lot and Sarah was crying so much because of the cynicism she exposed to. Sarah says she thought that the disease will stay for a short period , this is what the doctors told her, but it stayed for a long time . Sarah undergone for eight surgeries , but this was not a big problem , the big problem was the bullying that she has exposed to in school from her friends , because they thought that the disease is contagious so her friends shunned her a lot.

In 2010, Sarah undergo-ned for three surgeries in her face to remove the tumor , doctors did it , and they really succeeded in removing it, but the problem they said was that they were not sure whether the disease may come back again or not. Sarah's health state was much improved , she said that she is ready now to plan for the future , and hopes to succeed in it , she exposed to really big problems , and she was able to pass them successfully.

Sarah has already succeeded in overcoming this disaster disease, and doctors and specialists have succeeded in treating Sarah , this is considered as a brilliant medical success. But, the question remains: Is it possible to see diagnosed people with this disease again? Can we see the " Elephant Man disease " again?

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