Hey! viewers, have you heard or come across a sickness called "Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)?" Well, lets meet A 32-year-old Ashley Kurpiel from Peachtree City, Georgia,
USA, who is suffering from Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), which affects
just one out of every two million people.
This sickness causes muscles, tendons, ligaments to spontaneously turn
into new bones and is currently having no cure. Kurpiel was misdiagnosed with cancer when she was just
two-and-a-half and even had her arm amputated.
However, after five months after the crucial operation the
doctors said that the tumour they thought was a carcinoma was actually a sign
of FOP.
She said:
“I am growing a second skeleton in a sense, becoming a human statue physically. Many others living with this lose all mobility, head to toe, and their jaws have locked shut. At 25 I lost mobility in my right leg and had to learn to live life and how to move around"
It has already claimed her right arm, the movement in her
leg, and is slowly paralysing the rest of her body.
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