Sain Mumtaz:The man with a rare condition

Sain Mumtaz, 22, has been seriously disfigured by Proteus syndrome which has caused certain parts of his body to continue growing.

He has been accepted by locals in his neighbourhood on the outskirts of Lahore, in Pakistan, but the disease has left him with ongoing medical problems and he finds it difficult to get around.

 

But his family cling on to the hope that Sain is suffering from some other overgrowth disorder and if this is true then there may well be treatments that can help him.

His father, Wazir Ali, said: 'We want to discover what is wrong with him, and whether anything might be done to improve his day-to-day life.

'He has hopes for his future, one day he would like to run a rickshaw business and find a wife

Culled from dailymail.

Sain with his family

Sain with his dad.

Aesha Mohammadzai

 

 

 

Afghan girl,Aesha Mohammadzai fled to the Uk after her nose and ears were cut off by her wicked husband who she was forced to marry because she was caught trying to escape from the marriage.

Nigerian:Another serious case of illegal immigrant.

A Nigerian named Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole who worked at Newark Liberty international Airport as head of security for about 20 years was arrested at his home in Elizabeth after a tip off that he has been using the identity of a man called Jerry Thomas,Who was murdered in 1992,The same year Oyewole assumed his identity.

The astonishing recovery of 'turtle boy': British surgeon helps child live normal life by removing huge back mole that resembles a shell

The child dubbed 'turtle boy' because of a giant mole that covered his back like a shell, can now live a normal life thanks to a British surgeon.Didier Montalvo, six, from Colombia, had the rare condition Congenital Melanocytic Nevus.
There was a chance the growth could turn malignant but Didier's mother Luz could not raise the money for the operation.

Didier looks in wonder after his giant mole is removed from his back by surgeon Neil Bulstrode (pictured right)

The family were also ostracised from their rural village as the superstitious residents said Didier's condition was due to being conceived during an eclipse.
They feared he was touched by evil forces which meant he could not attend school or be baptised.   

'I want to grow up,' Didier said.
'But the mole won't let me.'
But thanks to leading plastic surgeon Neil Bulstrode, who operated on him  free after hearing of his plight, Didier can now grow up as any other child.
The story will be told tonight as part of Channel 4's Bodyshock documentary series.

Mr Bulstrode removes the growth during surgery in Colombia

Didier and his family was ostracised by their village due to his condition

Mr Bulstrode flew to the Colombian capital Bogotá to help a team of surgeons remove Didier’s birthmark, which had grown so big that it was feared it could become malignant.
The doctors then had to carry out a complicated series of skin grafts over several stages.

Mr Bulstrode told the Evening Standard: 'Didier’s was the worst case I had ever seen. Effectively three quarters of the circumference of his body was affected.
'Obviously he has had to go through a number of painful operations, but we feel it was worth it. It’s great to see the photos of how Didier is getting on now. I’m really happy with how things have healed.'

Smiling again: Didier says he can 'grow up' now his mole has gone

Mr Bulstrode is an expert in treating patients like Didier, who suffer from the rare condition. The cause is not known but experts think there is a change in the development of skin cells in the embryo triggered by a gene mutation.
Mr Bulstrode, who carries out about 40 CMN removals a year on patients at Great Ormond Street, said that working with the team in Bogotá had been an amazing experience.

Turtle Boy will be broadcast at 10pm on Channel 4 tonight

Meet Sophie,The tallest six years old in Uk

Meet Sophie Hollins, who at 4ft 10ins is the tallest six-year-old in Britain.
Sophie wears an adult size three shoe, jeans for 11-year-olds and is the average height of a 12-year-old - twice her age and she still has her baby teeth.
As a baby she was diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome, a rare condition which causes elongation of the arms, legs, fingers and toes.
Now age six, Sophie is head and shoulders above her classmates and sleeps in an adult-sized bed.Waoh!!!

Kim Kardarshian displays officially yours kanye West ear ring.

Kim was seen wearing a pair of gold and diamond studded earrings - that spell out the initials of her new rapper beau and they caused a stir over the weekend as kanye took her to one of the hottest restaurant (see picture below).

Wicked care giver caught on camera beating an old woman in his care.

To all appearances, it was an ordinary digital alarm clock. Except that it wasn’t.
It was a high-resolution, 30-frame remote video surveillance clock purchased for £20 on eBay, and I had bought it for one specific purpose: to record 24 hours in the life of my elderly mother at her North London care home.
My mother had been a resident at Ash Court, a 62-bedroom private care home in Kentish Town, for almost a year. 

Callous: Jonathan Aquino, pictured left, was thought to be a 'nice guy' until secret footage showed him beating Jane Worroll's mother at the care home in Kentish Town, north London

But I wanted to understand why she wasn’t sleeping, talking or feeding herself any more. She looked so sad, so introverted.
The care workers at Ash Court were always quick to reassure me: ‘Stop worrying. Your mother is fine . . .’

But I wasn’t satisfied. Why did fingermarks keep appearing on her upper arms? Why had she started moaning ‘oh God, oh God’ when care workers came into the room?

Suspicions: Jane Worroll decided to investigate why her elderly mother Maria was having trouble sleeping while a residents at the Ash Court Care Home in Kentish Town, North London

I got my answer — courtesy of the secret camera hidden in that clock. But it was an answer so painful, so unexpected, that it will for ever scar my family.
After just two nights of filming, I found out that the bruising didn’t come from aspirin, as the home’s staff and the home’s doctor had assured me. It came from abuse.
During those two nights, the camera captured footage of five carers visiting my mother. Their job was to prepare her for sleep and tend to her personal needs.
They did get her into bed. And they did wash her. But she was also slapped repeatedly, man-handled, verbally abused and jeered at.
One of the carers, Jonathan Aquino, 30, has just been jailed for 18 months for what he did to my mother. The other four carers — all women — have been sacked.
The footage has now been turned into a film investigating the threatening world of Britain’s elderly care homes, showing tonight on BBC’s Panorama.
Until my mother lost the capacity to walk, I’d always been one of those daughters who said: ‘I’ll never put my mother into a care home.’
But in March 2010, I found myself in a position where I had to. My 78-year-old mother, Maria Worroll, had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and had suffered several falls. She couldn’t get out of bed and ended up in hospital. The hospital and social services said she now needed full-time nursing care.
Until that point, I’d tended to her everyday needs — bathing and dressing and cooking for her. But now I was pregnant, still working and increasingly unable to manage. My siblings and I made a family decision to find a care home for our mother to live in.
When I first started looking, I imagined a home that was warm and homely, with highly trained, welcoming staff. I was naive. I visited many homes in North London.
Each time I walked through the door of another so-called ‘care’ home, another part of my modest dream was dispelled. The smell of urine, the institutional layout, the dark rooms and robotic smiles; by the time I’d finished I realised this was standard.
In July 2010, my mother moved into Ash Court, a purpose-built care home in Kentish Town. It seemed reasonably airy and it was close to us. The website for Forest Healthcare, which owns Ash Court, describes it as ‘a wonderfully warm and vibrant home’. The watchdog CQC (Care Quality Commission) rated it as ‘excellent’
My mother had been there six weeks when I noticed her knee was swollen. Soon after that she had bruises on her arm and hand. I commented on them and was told by the doctor it was probably due to low-dose aspirin making bruising appear more easily, and that the swelling in her knee was probably arthritis.

The secretly recorded footage showed two female carers hauling Maria out of her chair and manhandling her into bed

Jane Worroll began to suspect her mother was being mistreated after seeing bruises on her arm and hand

The doctor told me not to worry so much, and to let the staff do their job. I was shocked; I thought it was her job to worry. But I didn’t complain. I wanted the home to be a success.
I had my baby in September, and for six weeks wasn’t able to visit my mother so frequently. When I did visit, I noticed she was hunched and introverted. She’d stopped feeding herself. Before, I’d been able to hold simple conversations with her. Now she barely spoke.
I started trying to vary the times I visited to get a better idea of how the home was caring for her. Bruises were still appearing; she looked unclean and unkempt
Once, I walked into her room at 7.30am to find my mother slumped on one side like a rag doll. Her nightie was askew, her hair messy. She seemed confused. The staff came in looking guilty and made excuses. They’d left her for only a minute, they said. But I’d been there for a while.
When it came to eating, it seemed to be normal practice at the home to shovel food into my mother’s mouth, not even waiting for her to swallow her mouthful before shoving in another spoonful. They seemed oblivious to my request not to feed my mother fish, pasta or sweet tea, since she dislikes them.

The carers even criticised Maria for having bad breath as they manhandled her into a chair

Abuse: Maria's carers 'treated her like she didn't exist', says her daughter

Eventually, I lost my temper. I demanded to know how the chain of communication worked.
‘We don’t know,’ the staff said.
The result? A poster on Mum’s door saying: ‘No fish, pasta or tea.’ Her alternative meals were typically corned beef or sandwiches.

One evening, I arrived at the home at bedtime. I found Jonathan Aquino entering my mother’s room. I knew Jonathan. He was one of Ash Court’s more charming carers. He was always superficially friendly to me and my mother. But since he was a man, it never occurred to me that he would be attending to my mother’s  personal needs.
Startled, I said: ‘You are going to get a female nurse, aren’t you?’ I’d stressed the need for female-only carers in the care plan. My mother did not like being exposed.
Even when she lost the power to speak, her hands would be grappling for clothes and covers in an effort to protect her modesty.
For a fleeting second, a look passed across Aquino’s face which I didn’t like. It was a ‘Who are you to tell me what to do?’ expression.
‘Oh — OK,’ he said.

Appalled: Fiona Phillips, who presents the BBC documentary, broke down in tears as she watched the footage of Maria's treatment

Concerns: Fiona Phillips (left), whose father had Alzheimer's and who has campaigned for better care for the elderly, presents the programme in which Jane Worroll (right) reveals the treatment suffered by her 80-year-old mother Maria (centre), who also has the disease

By June last year, my mother had pretty much stopped talking. She could say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. She could understand commands. But when I said: ‘Are you OK?’ she would cry and say: ‘No.’
Which is why I decided to buy a hidden camera. The only way I could get a clear sense of my mother’s life was by recording it covertly
The surveillance clock arrived a week later, and I was stunned by what it recorded on its small memory card.
The footage showed two female carers hauling my mother out of her chair and manhandling her into bed. She was crying out in pain. One of them picked up her legs and dropped them on to the mattress.

Harrowing ordeal: Filipino care worker Jonathan Aquino was caught slapping Maria Worroll around her thighs and her face

‘Oh God, oh God,’ my mother was wailing. She has terrible arthritis, so rough treatment like this was agony for her. One of the carers commented nastily on how much my mother’s breath smelled.
Amid all this I could see my mother searching each woman’s face, trying to keep eye contact with her carers, still trying to rescue the situation and smile at them — even though she was in pain and being treated like dirty laundry.
But they blanked her and talked over her like she didn’t exist. It made my blood boil.
My heart told me to run to my mother, gather her up in my arms and bring her home. But I had a stronger gut feeling that I should film one more night.
I put the memory card back in. The next day, my heart heavy with anxiety, I visited my mother. She was still; pensive.
I left at 4pm with the footage from the second night in my pocket. I was still hoping the first night had been an aberration and that the new footage would show my mother sleeping peacefully.
When I got home, I popped the memory card into my laptop. Aquino came up on the screen. I was aghast — he shouldn’t be in my mother’s room. She was supposed to have only women carers. And he was alone.
I saw him tugging my mother’s clothes and a wave of outrage rose up in my throat. With a rude shove, he rolled her on to her side while she cried out with humiliation and pain. Then his arm swung back. I heard the crack of a slap against her thigh.
Over the following minutes, I saw him slapping my mother around her thighs and her face — again and again and again.
I was so shocked I screamed and leapt to my feet. ‘Pete!’ I yelled out to my partner, my throat catching. ‘He is hitting her! He is hitting her!’
I didn’t know what to do with myself. I started pacing round the room. Oh my God! Oh my God!
I didn’t want to alarm my baby, but I was in shock. I started crying. Then the fury came.
I called the manager of the home, Nancy Rasool. It was evening, the time she usually went home. ‘Don’t leave to go home,’ I told her. ‘Your staff have been abusing my mother. I’m coming straight over.’
My brother and niece met me at Ash Court. The manager came flurrying to the door. I could see she was very nervous. I walked into her office and stuck the memory card in her computer. ‘Oh my God,’ she said when she saw it. ‘Oh my God.’
She stood up. ‘I feel sick,’ she said and ran to the toilet.
I called the police. Aquino was arrested. Sometime later, I saw him being escorted from the building, his wrists cuffed behind his back. He was crying quietly.
The residents were in a state of bewilderment. They wanted to know what was going on. ‘Jonathan has been ill-treating my mother,’ I told them. The shock among relatives and residents was palpable. Everyone thought he was the nice guy.

Screams: A hidden camera caught a member at Ash Court Care Home in Kentish Town, North London, attacking Jane Worroll's mother while she cried out in agony

In the police investigation that followed, no other evidence of abuse from Aquino came to light. But I wouldn’t have known about him abusing my mother if I hadn’t put the camera in her room.
That night, the doctor at Ash Court did an extension examination of my mother, gently removing her clothing to map out the bruises or scratches or slap marks. I asked who had put my mother to bed earlier tonight.
‘Jonathan,’ the woman care worker said softly. I couldn’t believe it.
‘Was he by himself?’
‘Yes,’ she said, looking at the floor.
I was horrified. Now I knew where some of those bruises and fingerprint had been coming from. It was from being aggressively grabbed.
But there were no marks from the slaps the night before — either on her face or her thighs. Slaps don’t always leave evidence behind, I later learned, sick to my stomach.
My mother had to stay at Ash Court for another two months before we could find another home. My niece slept beside her for that first night. After that, Camden Council paid for agency nurses to guard her 24 hours a day. I went home to feed my baby, but didn’t sleep. I stayed up thinking about my mother until the sun came up.
I thought about how hard she’d struggled to bring us three children up on her own. She’d washed dishes, cooked and eventually  managed kitchen staff at St Christopher’s private school in North London. She worked there until she was 69. The pupils adored her and would often come to her for cuddles or chats.
I thought about how brave she was when she developed breast cancer in 1989. She’d never complained. She helped others even if they weren’t kind to her, never demanding acknowledgement.
She loved nature, being outdoors, walking, going to horticultural shows, gardening. She was a family woman.

'It broke my heart to know this had happened to my mother at a time of her life when she was the one needing help and compassion'

It broke my heart to know this had happened to my mother at a time of her life when she was the one needing help and compassion.
I looked at the footage again and again. It didn’t look to me like this was the first time for Aquino. Again and again, he slaps my mother. On her thigh, around her head. He doesn’t look flustered. He looks relaxed with his own power.
Five weeks later, I received a  letter from Peter Curtis, former chief executive of Forest Healthcare. He said that while the standard of care given by four of the female carers was ‘certainly unacceptable’, they had since been given four days of training and four days of direct supervision in another of the company’s homes — and would now be returning to work.
Last November, Forest Healthcare finally sacked the four women after viewing the footage again.
Last week, Forest Healthcare told Panorama that the incident with Aquino and my mother was ‘an isolated incident’. The spokesperson said that, even though I’d raised my concerns with a number of carers, I hadn’t approached Nancy Rasool directly, prior to showing her the video footage.
On the day we wheeled my mother out of Ash Court she looked up at the building and said her first coherent words in a year. She said: ‘Thank God I’m getting out of there.’
My mother has settled into her new care home. For the first few weeks, she looked terrified when a carer came into the room. But after a while she began to trust.
Some staff are lovely to her; they chat to her and hug her. The colour has come back to her skin. She has started to feed herself a bit. I have four surveillance cameras placed around her bedroom so I can monitor her on my mobile phone 24 hours a day. There is a sign on her door: ‘Anyone who enters this room will be captured on film.’ The surveillance set-up has enough digital memory to last for months.
The managerial staff accept the situation. They said: ‘Your mother’s room is her home from home. She can do what she likes in it.’
I still feel deeply saddened. Care homes shouldn’t be places we fear. But increasingly we do — and judging from my mother’s experience, we are right to fear them. Aquino has been dealt with. He was given an 18-month prison sentence.
But the culture of indifference is there in so many of our care homes. As are the managers who allow that culture to persist.
In response to the programme, Forest Healthcare says the assault was an isolated incident, and that although their manager had seen the footage in June, they requested to see it a second time, 'to complete the disciplinary process'.
The company says that immediately after viewing it again 'we completed proceedings and all four were dismissed'.
The Care Quality Commission says that it inspected the home within four days of learning what had happened to Maria Worroll but 'did not find any new evidence of poor practice or abuse'.
It said: 'If we had done so we would have taken action.'
The CQC says that inspectors recently returned to the home again unannounced and found 'improvements'. It told Panorama: 'CQC is confident it has acted swiftly and correctly in light of the evidence it has available.'

Culled from daily mail.

Giuliana Rancic expecting her first child.

Its been a tough year for this lovely couple ( Giuliana Rancic) after she battled breast cancer.

But the TV presenter has a reason to smile as it has been revealed she is awaiting the birth of her first child with her husband through a GESTATIONAL SURROGATE.

Beyonce and J zay...rare moment.

Rare moments.....Seems Beyonce is coming outta her shell...motherhood is good oooo.y'all agree with me shei?She was seen at a basketball game yesterday cheering the New York knicks and also affectionately stroking her husband's cheek....

Tupac is alive.

The crowd of 75,000 went wild as life size hologram of Tupac joined Snoop on Stage to perform at coachella festival.He was dressed in the way he would usually dress alive......

Snoop and Tupac in 1996.

OMG Kourtney!!

Kourtney almost fell over because she would not just stop wearing heels even while heavily pregnant with her second child.

Kimmy looks hot.

Kim Kardashian looks hot in this outfit,Iam all for her orange jacket that added some color to her overall outfit.

BEYONCE...looks hot as always...

Been a while we saw bebe and Jay z at the beach,but when they decided to hit the beach,They gave us something to talk about.....read more HERE

The most extensive face transplant in History.

A 37-year-old Virginia man severely disfigured by a 1997 gun accident has received the most extensive full-face transplant in medical history, according to University of Maryland Medical Center surgeons.
Hospital officials report that Richard Lee Norris, of Hillsville, Va., is recovering well after an amazing, medically unprecedented 36-hour surgery that not only gave him a new face—from the hairline to the neck--but also teeth, a tongue, and upper and lower jaws. (See before/after photo above, right.)
A week after the full-face operation, Norris’ improvement has exceeded his doctors’ expectations. He can open and close his mouth and is already brushing his new teeth and shaving the whiskers growing on the transplanted face. He’s miraculously regained his sense of smell, which he’d lost after the accident.

15 Years Hiding Behind a Mask

After the gun accident destroyed his face—robbing him of his lips, nose and teeth and limiting use of his mouth—Norris underwent many lifesaving and reconstructive surgeries. He remained so disfigured that he became a recluse, hiding in his home by day and only venturing out at night to shop, wearing a mask to conceal his face, according to a report by MSNBC.
"It's a surreal experience to look at him. It's hard not to stare. Before, people used to stare at Richard because he wore a mask and they wanted to see the deformity," said lead surgeon Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. "Now, they have another reason to stare at him, and it's really amazing."

A Groundbreaking Medical First

Norris’ doctors say that the two-day operation is the world’s first full-face transplant performed by a team of plastic and reconstructive surgeons with specialized training and expertise in craniofacial surgery and reconstructive microsurgery.
In all, more than 150 doctors, nurses, and medical staffers were involved in the groundbreaking procedure, which used innovative surgical and computerized techniques to “precisely transplant the mid-face, maxilla and mandible including teeth, and a portion of the tongue,” as well as underlying muscles and nerves, said Dr. Rodriquez in a news release.
“Our goal is to restore function as well as have aesthetically pleasing results.”

A Rare Operation

Norris is only the 23rd person in medical history to receive a face transplant since surgeons began doing the operation seven years ago. The first full-face transplant was performed in France, on a woman whose face was severely mauled by her dog. The first US partial face transplant was done at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008, while the first U.S. full-face procedures were performed last year at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston.
Recipients include Dallas Wiens, a 26-year-old Texan who accidentally struck a power line while painting a church; Mitch Hunter, 30, of Indiana, disfigured by a car crash, and Charla Nash, who was famously attacked and mauled by a neighbor’s pet chimpanzee, Travis. The three patients’ results were described in a recent New England Journal of Medicine study.

What’s Involved in a Full-Face Transplant?

"Unlike conventional reconstruction, facial transplantation seeks to transform severely deformed features to a near-normal appearance and function that conventional reconstructive plastic surgical techniques cannot match," NEJM study author Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, director of the plastic surgery transplantation program at BWH, reported last year. "It truly is a life-giving procedure."
Before a full-face transplant, patients must undergo rigorous medical and psychological exams to determine if the person is physically and mentally ready for the grueling and life-altering surgery and its potential risks, which including infections, anesthesia reactions, severe bleeding, and the possibility that the transplant may fail.

How risky are full-face transplants?

In the NEJM study, Hunter and Nash had “single episodes of rejection,” which were successfully treated with immunosuppressant drugs so their bodies wouldn’t reject the new faces. All three patients in the study got infections, with Nash developing both pneumonia and kidney failure after the operation.
Nash’s doctors also tried to give her new hands (from the same donor) to replace those lost in the chimp attack, a procedure only attempted once before, in France. In Nash’s case, the hand procedure failed and the new hands had to be amputated. However, the full-face transplant took and she has regained sensation, but not movement, in her face, according to CBS.

What might be ahead for Richard Lee Norris?

In the NEJM study, the three patients who received full-face transplants all regained partial sensation in their new faces in a few months. The researchers also reported promising results in 18 patients who received face transplants since 2005, but most were to repair partial disfigurement.
Based on these cases, Norris’ appearance is likely to gradually transform over time to look like a combination of his new and original face, and he may regain at least partial sensation. Dr. Rodriquez is hopeful that Norris, who is unemployed and has lived with his parents since the accident, will now be able to have a full life.
"This accidental injury just destroyed everything,” Dr. Rodriguez told Associated Press. “The rest of his friends and colleagues went on to start getting married, having children, owning homes.” After 15 years behind a mask, “he wants to make up for all of that.”

culled from yahoo

Crazy dream of a FAT woman.

A mother bidding to become the fattest woman in the world has become engaged to marry a chef.
Susanne Eman, 33, revealed her controversial dream of reaching a target weight of over 115 stone last year - to become the biggest human ever.
Now the mother-of-two, who currently weighs more than 54 stone, plans to wed fiance Parker Clack, 35, who loves cooking for her.

Supersize diet: Susanne Eman, 33 being spoon fed by her boyfriend Parker Clack, 38 at the breakfast table

The pair met over the internet last year and hit it off following a string of emails.
Within months Parker moved in to Susanne's home in Casa Grande, Arizona, where she lives with sons Brendin, 13, and Gabriel, 17.


Unemployed Susanne said: 'We are a match made in heaven. I love eating and Parker loves cooking.

Love: Susanne and Parker share a kiss on their bed. The pair met over the internet last year and hit it off following a string of emails

Feast: Susanne enjoys her dinner at a local restaurant tucking into several dishes, including a side salad

'It's a perfect pairing. I still want to be the fattest woman in the world and Parker is fine with that.
'He loves larger women and sees how happy I am when I'm eating.
'His cooking skills were definitely part of the attraction. How could I resist a man with talents in the kitchen?
'His signature dish, spaghetti bolognese, is my favourite. I could eat it all day.
'Parker helps by doing the housework too.
'He does most of the house work, cooking, helps encourage me to go for walks, he goes swimming with me, helps me do anything I have difficulty with.'

Parker encourages Susanne to go for walks and swim to keep her mobile and helps her with anything else she has difficulty with

Keep-fit: Parker is supporting Susanne in her controversial goal of becoming the world's heaviest

Susanne says she has gained several stone since her last weigh-in last year when she registered at 54 stone

Amazingly Parker is supporting Susanne in her controversial goal of becoming the world's heaviest.
Seen here dishing up a home-cooked breakfast for her, Parker cooks mountains of bacon and scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, huge slices of toast and even salad for Susanne.
Parker said: 'I support her because it makes her happy, and I love big women.
'I do worry about her health of course, but I try to make sure she eats some healthy food like salad, and I make sure she does exercises.
'She's taken up swimming since we met and we love to swim together.

Susanne poses for a photograph with her two sons Gabriel, left, 17, Brandon, right, 13, and her fiance Parker Clack. The couple are pictured right, together. Doctors have told Susanne she is gambling with her life

'I know becoming the biggest woman ever is something she truly wants to do with all of her heart.
'She had a check up last year and the doctor said she was fine, even though he doesn't support her mission. He said she's gambling with her life.
'As long as the doctors say she's okay, I'll support her.
'I'd love Susanne whatever she looked like, but if she was a size-zero model I wouldn't have noticed her in the first place.
'We met online and exchanged photos when we were courting. I thought she was beautiful.
'I've always preferred bigger girls. To me there's nothing attractive about a skinny woman. It's more ladylike to have curves.

As Susanne, a size 10XL, continues to balloon, Parker takes her and her sons to the park on day-trips - wheeling Susanne around in her wheelchair

'Men aren't supposed to have curves, but women are, and Susanne definitely has them.'
Susanne says she has gained several stone since her last weigh-in last year when she registered at 54 stone.
She had hoped to be three stone heavier by the end of 2011.
'It's harder to gain than you might think because I'm trying to stay as healthy and active as possible,' she said.
'I've been slowly upping what I eat. It's like an athlete training but instead of training to be harder, I'm making myself softer.
'There's not been a point where I've doubted what I'm doing. It's deep desire for me to do this and I feel I can do it without endangering my health so I don't worry about my boys.'
As Susanne, a size 10XL, continues to balloon, Parker takes her and her sons to the park on day-trips - wheeling Susanne around in her wheelchair.
'My mobility is decreasing,' she said. 'But I always knew this would happen as I gained. I get out of breath more easily and Parker has to push me in my chair more often.

Susanne is served breakfast in bed by Parker who is a chef. Her favourite food is spaghetti bolognese which is his signature dish

'When we go to the store he shops for me. He helps me in and out of the car. He encourages me to do my exercises.
'My aim is to never become bed-bound. As long Parker keeps taking me out to the park for waddles, then I know I can keep moving.'  
Reaching her goal would mean Susanne tops that of previous world record-holder Carol Ann Yager, who died in 1994 from kidney failure caused by morbid obesity.
But despite warnings from doctors that she is playing 'Russian Roulette' with her life, Susanne says she can avoid the fate of others who have reached over 1000lbs (71 stone).
'I do my best to eat as much healthy food as possible,' said Susanne.
'I do an exercise regime to keep me as mobile as possible and Parker helps with that. He makes sure I do my stretches and sit ups.
'I want to try and break the stigma that being fat is bad.
'And it's helped me to find love, so hat's wrong with that.'




Culled from dailymail

Fabrice Muaba regains consciousness....

Fabrice Muamba's father revealed today the bewildered footballer had to be told the match he collapsed in had been abandoned because of his cardiac arrest.
The Bolton Wanderers star is recovering well in hospital and his family said they are looking forward to the day they can take him home.
But family friend Aime Esalo told how Muamba came to and asked: 'Did we lose?' The Bolton Wanderers player was told the match was called off with the score at 1-1.

'God is in control': Shauna Magunda, right, Fabrice Muamba's fiancee urged her Twitter followers to keep the Bolton player in their prayers as he fights for life

Remarkable progress: Bolton manager Owen Coyle, speaking outside the London Chest Hospital, said he has been amazed by the speed of Fabrice Muamba's recovery

Mr Esalo told The Sun: 'Fabrice asked why they had stopped it and his father said, "Because of you".'

Muamba also asked about his three-year-old son Joshua in his first words after coming round from a coma, it has been claimed.
Although he is breathing by himself and able to recognise family members, Bolton manager Owen Coyle said Muamba, 23, is still in the early days of his fight back to full health.
The player is still in intensive care at the London Chest Hospital but has amazed his manager with the speed of his recovery.
Cardiologists say the long-term outlook will remain unclear for some time.
A cousin, who did not want to be named, told the Evening Standard: 'His eyes are open and he’s recognising people. I spoke to him yesterday, he’s able to speak. Everything is fine. We thank God for that. He will be back home.'
Muamba collapsed on the pitch at White Hart Lane at 6.11pm on Saturday in the first half of an FA Cup quarter-final tie against Tottenham Hotspur as he suffered a heart attack.

Support: Bolton Wanderers captain Kevin Davies, left, and midfielder Darren Pratley, right, visit Muamba, 23, in hospital

Romance: Fabrice Muamba proposed to his girlfriend Shauna Magunda on Valentines Day

His family, including his fiancée Shauna Magunda, 27, and his parents, Marcel and Gertrude, have been maintaining a constant vigil at his bedside ever since.
The footballer had a 'comfortable night' in intensive care last night as he continues to recover after being visited by a host of professional players including Chelsea's Ashley Cole yesterday.
After Muamba uttered his first words, his delighted fiancée tweeted: 'All your prayers are working people thank u so so much. To God be the glory.'

Happy couple: Fabrice Muamba, right, out with his fiancee Shauna who he had recently got engaged to. The couple have a three-year-old son

Curtis Codrington, who has spent hours at the footballer’s bedside praying for his recovery, said: 'When he opened his eyes and spoke, his first words were in French. It is such a good sign.'
The chauffeur added Muamba, who does not drink and is 'deeply religious', is devoted to his family.

'He is one of the most genuine guys I have ever met,' he said. 'His family mean everything to him.' Miss Magunda today thanked the thousands of  well-wishers across the world for their support.
Bolton manager Owen Coyle said today he would 'never have imagined' his player would begin to recover so quickly.

Coyle said had managed to 'exchange a few words' with the midfielder today but said the contents of the conversation would remain private.
'Fabrice is still in intensive care, still remains critical but yes as you know there has been improvement,' he said.

'I've managed to get to see him myself, as have close family members, I had a conversation, a few words exchanged, that will remain private as you will understand, which is a great sign.
'I must stress it's still very much very early in the process. Fabrice is still a long way to go but there's encouraging signs. We think that's really positive as we move forward from that point.
'I will have to go on record and thank everyone, it was remiss of me yesterday because I have to mention the supporters actually at the match of Bolton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur.
Asked if he thought Fabrice would make a full recovery, Coyle said: 'It has happened before. Every case is on its own merit. Shock: Bolton manager Owen Coyle (left) walks alongside the stretcher as medical staff attend to Fabrice Muamba. Leading the way, right, is Tottenham fan Dr Andrew Deaner, a consultant cardiologist who came down from the stands to help resuscitate the player

Tributes: Flowers, cards, teddy bears and scarves are left outside Bolton's Reebok Stadium as England under 21 international footballer Fabrice Muamba tries to fight back to full health

'Eric and Fabrice strength!': A message of support at AS Roma's Olympic Stadium for Bolton's Muamba and Barcelona's Eric Abidal who is to undergo a liver transplant

'Two things Fabrice has on his side are he is a fit young man and the life that he has had, he has had to fight every step of the way along his young journey.
'These are two things that I'm sure will stand him in good stead.'
He added Bolton would be back training tomorrow but said the main concern at the moment was Fabrice.
The Premier League side have postponed their match against Aston Villa tonight and their game against Blackburn Rovers on Saturday is in doubt.
A joint statement by the club and the hospital trust said today: 'Fabrice Muamba has had a comfortable night in the intensive care unit at the London Chest Hospital where the medical team is continuing to monitor his progress.
'Fabrice's family has asked us to thank everyone again for their thoughts and prayers and for the continued messages of support from which they draw great strength.
'To ensure the smooth running of the hospital for all patients, as well as Fabrice's need to concentrate on his recovery, they would request that he receives no more visitors for the moment, outside of immediate family and members of Bolton Wanderers Football Club.'
Today a student who admitted posting sick Twitter comments about Muamba was facing the prospect of being thrown out of his university.
Biology student Liam Stacey, 21, is facing jail after admitting posting racist and offensive remarks just after the Bolton player collapsed.
A campaign has been launched to get the Swansea University undergraduate thrown off his course.
A spokesman for the university said they had launched an investigation after the student admitted Tweeting 'LOL, F*** Muamba. He's dead'.
As the footballer battles back after waking from a coma, his teammate and club captain Kevin Davies heaped praise on him for his remarkable fight.

Fight: Fabrice Muamba, left with Diego Maradona in 2005, and, right, with his fiancee at a party last year

Happy times: Bolton Wanderers midfielder in a picture he posted on Twitter last month. He is in a critical condition today after collapsing on the pitch on Saturday

The Bolton captain said he had been 'half expecting the phone to ring' with tragic news as he told of the team's sleepless nights since Muamba collapsed on the pitch on Saturday.
He told the Sun: 'We all love Fab. We respect him hugely for where he has come from. He's had a tough life. Nothing has been handed to him on a plate.'
He called Muamba 'a great role model', telling how he is 'one of the first in every morning' and one of the last to leave the gym at night.
He added: 'It is not something you often see with young players. They want to get in, get out, drive their fancy cars and buy Gucci clothes. That's not Fabrice. It's refreshing to see.'
On Saturday night doctors battled for two hours to get Muamba's heart pumping again.

Battle: Fabrice Muamba and his Bolton teammate David Wheater on a mat together as Olympic judo expert Sarah Clark assesses their 'skills'. The photo was taken as the players visited a Bolton Muslim girls school

There are several possible causes of Fabrice Muamba’s cardiac arrest.
The one which most commonly kills young athletes is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
A genetic defect, it causes part of the heart muscle to thicken in about one in 500 people. It is most serious in the young and is exacerbated by exercise. 
In some countries, such as Italy, screening for this condition is mandatory for footballers and sufferers are not allowed to play. But in Britain it is up to individual clubs.
Although Muamba’s heart was eventually restarted, the major concern now is that just a few minutes without blood pumping to the brain could have caused  brain damage.
Patients are usually put into a medically induced coma using anaesthetic and their body temperature is drastically reduced for about 24 hours, which can prevent brain damage developing.
Other, less common possible causes of sudden cardiac arrest include ARVD, another disorder of the heart muscle which causes part of it to turn to fat; faults with the heart’s electrical impulses; irregular rhythms; or defective heart valves.

It is believed to have stopped altogether for seven minutes, sparking fears that he could have suffered brain damage because of a lack of oxygen.
It was the intervention of a consultant cardiologist who was at Saturday's game that may have saved his life.
Tottenham fan Dr Andrew Deaner went onto the pitch and helped treat the player before he was rushed to hospital.

He received prolonged resuscitation at the ground and while on route to The London Chest Hospital, where his heart eventually started working.
Under new NHS guidelines emergency heart cases are immediately routed directly to a number of specialist hospitals across the capital, where consultant cardiologists are on duty round the clock.
After Muamba fell to the ground on the pitch, Coyle shouted 'he's just collapsed' before running across to join the paramedics.
Players gathered and a defibrillator was used on the star, who has also played for Arsenal and Birmingham.
Muamba, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, was taken off on a stretcher as fans held their heads in their hands, with some in tears.
It is understood that Coyle and Bolton striker Kevin Davies accompanied Muamba in the ambulance to the London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green, east London.

Today Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini called today for twice-yearly medical screenings for Premier League players after admitting he was worried that not enough is being done to protect them.
Mancini said he was relieved to hear of Muamba's improvement, but revealed that he failed to understand how the Premier League has allowed a situation that puts the safety of players at risk.
'I was really worried on Sunday,' he said. 'Today I have read he has improved and I am very happy for him and his family.
'But if you want to know my opinion, it is that, here in England, the best championship in the world, everything is fantastic. But we need to improve the medical side for the players.
'We need to screen the players often, maybe two times a year, and they have to be more accurate because they don't do this.
'When I saw our medical two years ago, I was really worried. I said we need to do them better.'

Respects: Ashley Cole (right), Shaun Wright-Phillips (left) and another man arrive at the London Chest Hospital yesterday to visit Fabrice Muamba who has seen his condition improve slightly in the last 24 hours

Friends: Arsenal defender Johan Djourou, left, and Tottenham players Emmanuel Adebeyor (white shirt) and Michael Essien (purple shirt), right, visited their friend at the London Chest hospital in East London

Consultant cardiologist: Andrew Deaner helped to save Muamba's life

A Tottenham supporter helped to save the life of Fabrice Muamba after he collapsed on the pitch.
Dr Andrew Deaner was in the stands watching Spurs play Bolton when the 23-year-old England under 21 international collapsed.
He rushed down to the pitch and directed paramedics as they battled to save the footballer. Today he remains critically ill at hospital.
Dr Deaner is a father-of-three and a keen cyclist. He graduated from the Leeds University School of Medicine in 1987 and now works in NHS and private hospitals in London and Essex.
He treats patients with all types of cardiac disease, including those with coronary artery disease and people who have suffered angina, heart attack and cardiac arrest.
He is also an expert in pacemakers as well having a special interest in heart disease in pregnancy.
Heavily involved in the training of junior doctors, the Spurs fan is chair of the Specialist Training Committee in General Medicine for the north Thames region and a member of the British Cardiovascular Society and the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society.
Furthermore, Dr Deaner holds the post of secretary of the Cardiology Council of the Royal Society of Medicine.
As well as his position at the NHS London Chest Hospital, Dr Deaner is a consultant cardiologist at Spire Roding and Spire Hartswood private hospitals in Essex.
He is also the clinical lead in cardiology and clinical director for acute medicine at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. This is his main place of work.
In his personal profile for Spire, Dr Deaner writes: 'I was born and brought up in south west Essex.
'I am married with three teenage children, and spend much of my spare time cycling on a Colnago C50 road bike.
'Amongst numerous cycling achievements, I have successfully ridden an amateur stage of the Tour De France on six occasions and have completed the ultra-long distance Paris-Brest-Paris cycle event on two occasions.
'My other interests include travel and the theatre.'

The Tottenham squad have demanded heart screenings after seeing Bolton's Fabrice Muamba collapse during their FA Cup match.
Specialist sports cardiologist Sanjay Sharma says 'one or two players' are due to be tested by him today but the entire squad want to be examined.
Muamba is still fighting for his life in intensive care in a critical condition after suddenly collapsing during Saturday's abandoned FA Cup match at Tottenham.
Mr Sharma told Sky News television that 'these cardiac arrests in young people are very rare, they affect about one in 50,000 people.'
The leading sport cardiologist says the examinations for the Tottenham squad will look for any heart muscle damage.
He told the Independent he that Muamba's collapse 'surprised' him.
He said: 'I am surprised the heart problem was not picked up. The medical screening these players get is extremely comprehensive.
'It will identify 80 per cent of conditions causing sudden death.'

He added that he was stunned at the low standard of medicals in the Premier League compared with his native Italy, adding: 'It is impossible that a young guy could die on the pitch because they didn't do a medical accurately.

'I want all the players, not just ours, to have more accurate medicals.
'What happened to Muamba and other players in the past can't happen again.'
Last night the entire Sunderland squad visited a vigil site that has been set up at Bolton's Reebok Stadium. Players laid a shirt next to flowers and written tributes ahead of their game against Blackburn tomorrow.
David Beckham sent a message of support from the U.S., Bolton manager Owen Coyle said yesterday.
Coyle said: 'David Beckham has sent a message from across the Atlantic and it shows what opinion people have of Fabrice as a man, not just as a footballer.
'Hopefully that will bring him along.'
Bolton may yet withdraw from the FA Cup to avoid a harrowing return to Tottenham in a rescheduled match. The game was called off soon after Muamba collapsed.
If the game is axed, Tottenham would go into a semi-final against Chelsea at Wembley. Bolton would not be penalised if they decide to withdraw.
Dr Jonathan Hill, a consultant cardiologist at King's College Hospital London added: 'Premier League footballers get the best heart checks and screening possible but events can happen that can't be picked up at screening.
'They spend about two days testing the heart when a player has a full medical. Everything is extremely thorough.
'Sportsmen aren't necessarily immune from heart disorders. Fabrice Muamba was probably just unlucky. You can develop a problem with the heart out of the blue. And no one is really to blame for such events.'

Tributes: Fans leave shirts with messages of support at Bolton's Reebook Stadium as the footballer remains in an artificially-induced coma. Fans of rival clubs, including Liverpool, also left their shirts

Dreadful scenes: Bolton's manager Owen Coyle, right, looks on distraught with other players as Fabrice Muamba of Bolton Wanderers receives CPR treatment on the pitch

Football star: Fabrice Muamba on the ball for England under 21s during the European Championship final against Germany three years ago

Concern: Tottenham's Jermaine Defoe is consoled on the pitch by Gareth Bale, left. In the image on the right, Tottenham's Benoit Assou-Ekotto, left, William Gallas, Carlo Cudicini and Bolton manager Owen Coyle look on

Shocking: Fabrice Muamba can be seen running with the ball, left, during Saturday's game shortly before he collapsed. Right, the 23-year-old lies on the ground immediately after collapsing

Star: Fabrice Muamba can be seen here playing for England under-21's

Fabrice Ndala Muamba is a talented player with a dream to one day earn a doctorate.
The 23-year-old Bolton Wanderers midfielder was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire, before his family fled to the UK.
Born on April 6 1988, Muamba grew up in country's capital Kinshasa. to the sound of gunshots.
His father, Marcel, worked for the regime of former Zaire president Mobutu Sese Seko, who was overthrown in 1997.
Hunted by anti-Mobutu forces during one of the bloodiest civil wars in modern history, Marcel was forced to flee the country.
His wife, Gertrude, and four children were taken in by his brother. However, they too had to leave when Muamba's uncle was killed.
In 2008 he told the Daily Mail: 'It was very, very tough. I saw the war. I saw people die. I grew up with it. It was scary.
'I didn't live far from the gunshots and the sound of them going off. It was difficult to get used to, especially hearing guns at night. It did have an effect on me.
'It stopped us going out to play football because we were scared we would get killed. One or two of my friends were hurt, one or two of them have since died.'
Muamba was granted asylum in the UK in 1999. Coming to a new country as an 11-year-old, he could not speak a word of English.
However, the intelligent youngster quickly picked up the language and excelled at school.
He attended Kelmscott School in Walthamstow, north-east London - just three miles away from White Hart Lane, where he collapsed during tonight's FA Cup tie against Tottenham.
He had ambitions to one day become an accountant and be referred to as 'Dr Muamba'.
Muamba has more qualifications than any of his teammates in the Bolton dressing room, having earned 10 GCSEs as well as A-levels in French, maths and English.
A tall man at 6ft 2in, his passions off the pitch include listening to opera music, academia and spending time with his son, Joshua Jeremiah.
The player is also said to be deeply religious. He also represented England at every youth level.


Culled from dailymail