am i crazy? could i be immagining this commercial?
hell yea your crazy!
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no its true, hard to believe, but true
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lilmama2b_oct04
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 1970 Location: Wisconsin
Pregnant 7 Year Old Boy?!?! Please Read, Im Not Joking! Posted: 04-16-04 22:47pm
Ok this morning I was watching a show on
discovery health channel and there was a
commercial about a 7 year old boy that
became pregnant with his twin... The show
on it was called the vanishing twin or
something like that... I was wondering if
anyone seen the show, or had heard about
this at all... How is that possible?
Ive been watching this channel all morning
now waiting for the commercial to come
back on so I can know what time that show
is going to be on....
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sparklypixie12
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 3099
Posted: 04-16-04 22:51pm
I believe you because I watched a
documentary here about it. Basically its
very rare but when his mother was
pregnant,his twin became attached to him
& lived off to blood supply to him.
As the boy got older, he was suffering
from stomach problems.They operated &
found a huge mass in his stomach-it was
his twin.They showed what they found &
I nearly puked-it had hair & fingers
and it was big but it didnt look human-it
looked like a troll.So yes it can happen
but its very rare & very gross
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PregnaJordan
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 2908
Posted: 04-16-04 23:43pm
I saw taht on fox one time,but it wasnt
about the 7 year old, it was like a 50 yr.
Old man that lived in ethiopia or a poor
country like that and he always had this
huge preggo loooking belly but didnt have
the tech. Over there to check it out..But
one day they found a spec. And it was his
dead twin..He had been in there for all
that time..They showed it and it was
weird..It was like omg, he couldnt feel
all that inside him? The show was called
like 40 most weirdest things ever removed
from the human body
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JillMarie
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 3022 Location: Iowa
Posted: 04-16-04 23:51pm
Ive heard of that happening too!
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Mesmerizeu15
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 2729 Location: Pittsburgh,PA
Posted: 04-17-04 00:04am
I read about the same thing as jordan!! I
have the picture if anyone wants to see
let me know
After reading this post I went look up
some stories there is one below. Isn't
this caca wierd!~~~~~!!
Boy 'pregnant' with his own twin brother
by barbara davies
doctors have removed a 4lb baby boy from
the stomach of his seven-year-old twin
brother.
Alamjan nematilaev was born with the freak
foetus growing inside him.
For seven years it lived like a parasite
until a school doctor became alarmed about
alamjan's bulging tummy and took him to
hospital.
Surgeons who gave him a scan operated
immediately, unaware that the baby was
attached to the boy's blood vessels and
still alive.
They saved alamjan from certain death, but
knew the 8in foetus was doomed.
Maksud ai-magaibetov, who removed the
baby, said: "thank god the school doctor
insisted on taking him to hospital. If
this had gone on, we would not have been
able to rescue him."
and in a blast at alamjan's parents, he
added: "to my mind it was impossible not
to notice the size of his belly.
"i mean, the boy really looked like a
woman in her sixth month of pregnancy."
the bizarre story of alamjan reads like
the plot from a horror novel.
His tummy grew and grew, but his plight
went undiscovered for years because his
parents thought he had rickets, a common
childhood disease in his native
kazakhstan.
Then, after a gym lessson, his school
doctor took him for a medical
examination.
Consultants were baffled by the mystery
lump - until they took a scan.
His mother gulnara, 30, said she almost
fainted when doctors broke the news.
She added: "i was stunned. It's just not
what you expect to hear. We knew he was a
bit overweight, but pregnant?
"however, I could tell from the solemn
expressions of the doctors that they
weren't joking."
gulnara admitted that she told alamjan off
for making up stories when he complained
of something moving inside him.
"i hadn't listened properly and told him
to be quiet," she sobbed.
Alamjan's medical condition is not new,
but doctors claim his case is unique
because the others have been detected far
earlier.
Dr ai-magaibetov said: "we couldn't
believe our eyes when we scanned him.
"we could see the clear shape of a baby
inside him. And it wasn't a small baby.
We have never heard of a case like it."
dr valentina vostrikova, who led the
medical team, said: "it was remarkable -
for almost seven years it lived like a
parasite inside the boy's body.
"the embryo was recognisably male and lay
in such a way that he sustained himself
from his brother.
"technically, the baby was alive, yet was
not sustainable when separated from his
brother."
alamjan's gran mantsura said: "the doctors
showed us the poor little twin. He was a
big boy, with a head, a body, hair, nails
and a penis. We just can't believe he was
growing inside our boy."
gulnara plans to keep the tragedy a secret
from alamjan.
She explained: "i don't want to frighten
him, because he won't understand it.
"he doesn't know how babies come into the
world, and I don't think we'll ever tell
him about this case because we don't want
to shock him."
alamjan has been told not to show the scar
on his stomach to anybody.
He knows only that he had a lump inside
him which has now been removed.
"i had a football inside me," he said,
cupping his hands to show the size of it.
"but my mum has told me to stop talking
about it."
authorities have tried to hush up the
case, fearing it will disgrace their
crumbling health system rather than create
scientific interest.
But a full postmortem will be carried out
to study the phenomenon.
Dr ai-magaibetov said: "it will give us
the answer as to what exactly happened and
why.
"one cause of the abnormality could be
radioactive pollution in kazakhstan dating
from soviet times, causing the unnatural
development."
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lilmama2b_oct04
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 1970 Location: Wisconsin
Posted: 04-17-04 00:33am
Thanks everybody for filling me in...
Thank you chanda for posting the story...
Thats just crazy! I couldnt believe it
when I seen it on tv... I thought I was
immagining things cuz I havent seen the
commercial at all since this morning....
Im still in shock I think... I cant
believe stuff like that can happen!