Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Harlequin


I AM IN TEARS!!! documentary on now about four sisters with harlequin ichthyosis disease. meaning, they have too much skin. they grow on an average, the amount of skin in 1 day we normally grow in 2 weeks. 1 in a million babies are born with it. OMG SO HEARTBREAKINGLY SAD!!

their everyday ritual is a full-body scrub down twice a day, to soften the skin so that it wont crack...and if they dont, the skin will tighten up and suffocate them.

won't show the baby pictures though. so so so disturbing. go check it out on google. they seriously look unbelievably scary.

HOW COULD RECESSIVE GENES BE SO STRONG?!

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