t’s no laughing matter! A Las Vegas man needs a US$1mil (RM3.1mil) surgery to correct his unfortunate condition- having 45kg testicles.
The 47-year-old’s testicles have grown so big that he cannot wear jeans or trousers anymore.
The poor man is on a diet of antibiotics and medication.
It is is so large that he has trouble walking and using the bathroom, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Wesley Warren Jr, went public about his scrotal elephantiasis to try and raise the cash for the operation.
"It's not easy to get around. It makes me stay in most of the time."
Warren Jr's condition has made him depressed.
"I want to have real friends and a relationship with a woman," he told the paper.
"But I'm not suicidal. I'm too strong for that."
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Images: Wesley Warren Jr
Published Oct 19 2011
Too lazy to start another thread but this is interesting ..
A fisherman has discovered what appears to be a baby shark with a single eye in the centre of its face.
The albino 'cyclops' fetus was cut from the belly of a pregnant bull shark caught in the Gulf of California this summer.
The one-eyed shark has achieved cult status since Pisces Fleet Sportfishing published pictures of it in July, giving rise to rumours of Photoshopping or other hoaxes.
But shark researchers who have examined the creature say it is genuine, although it is unlikely it would have survived after birth, MSNBC reported.
Shark expert Felipe Galvan Magana, of Mexico's Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias del Mar, said: "This is extremely rare. As far as I know, less than 50 examples of an abnormality like this have been recorded."
The shark's condition is known as cyclopia, and is a rare congenital disorder characterised by the failure of the front portion of the brain to properly divide the orbits of the eye into two cavities.
Cyclopia occurs within the spectrum of brain and face defects known as holoprosencephaly, which in severe cases can result in miscarriage or stillbirth.
In 2005 a kitten born with only one eye and no nose caused a similar online stir.
The feline, one of two in a litter, became known as Cy (short for Cyclops) and died within a day.
Source: Daily Mail, UK but various ones as well.
Published Oct 19 2011