Not the same as potatoes, but here's a mom who had cancer, knew she had a 50/50 chance of passing it on, still had three kids, and now all three of them have cancer too.
Tristen received his diagnosis in April 2014. Caison was diagnosed in October 2016 and Carter in January of this year.
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How can you be ok with 50% odds of passing a cancer that can cause you to loose you eyes (not just your eyesight, your actual eyes) to your kids? Of course they have GoFundMe.
Reminds me of this doc. Sorry if someone else already brought this up. Been a while since i saw it, but the mom did IVF & had a harlequin kid. Was told there was something like a 50% chance her second kid (also IVF) would have it, did it anyways. What do you know? Second kid has it too.
There was a family in the 1980s that used a fertility drug, Frustaci was the last name.
She had seven babies, but one was stillborn, one died three days later, and two more died not long after. They refused selective termination, and of course sued the doctor, claiming he gave her too high a dose of the drug.
The remaining three children have problems, but the crazy woman did it again and had a set of twins that came out healthy.
The stress was so bad the parents ended up divorcing, and the mom died a few years ago.
Fun fact: The Frustaci lady was arrested for DUI when she tried to make a U-Turn on the I-15 and got her
spud wagon stuck in the sand. Who knew that having your own group home would drive you to drink?
Fun fact: The Frustaci lady was arrested for DUI when she tried to make a U-Turn on the I-15 and got her
spud wagon stuck in the sand. Who knew that having your own group home would drive you to drink?
There was a family in the 1980s that used a fertility drug, Frustaci was the last name.
She had seven babies, but one was stillborn, one died three days later, and two more died not long after. They refused selective termination, and of course sued the doctor, claiming he gave her too high a dose of the drug.
The remaining three children have problems, but the crazy woman did it again and had a set of twins that came out healthy.
The stress was so bad the parents ended up divorcing, and the mom died a few years ago.
Hope this is the right place to ask. Does anyone have any updates on Juliana Wetmore? I remember years ago watching the documentary about her, and then later reading a news article about her being in elementary school.
Every so often I randomly think of her and look her up, but it looks like there hasn't been any updates whatsoever since 2016. I searched for about 45 minutes and couldn't find a single update about her or her family. I'm curious as to what she is up to. She would be 17 or 18 now.
Hope this is the right place to ask. Does anyone have any updates on Juliana Wetmore? I remember years ago watching the documentary about her, and then later reading a news article about her being in elementary school.
Every so often I randomly think of her and look her up, but it looks like there hasn't been any updates whatsoever since 2016. I searched for about 45 minutes and couldn't find a single update about her or her family. I'm curious as to what she is up to. She would be 17 or 18 now.
I actually found out some information after searching a bit more. She's apparently doing well. She made the dean's list for her middle and high school, and she plays in her high school's concert orchestra. I didn't find any stories or pictures about this, just her name listed in her school's rosters.
Honestly, that makes me really happy to read. I'm glad her mother didn't try to keep Juliana in the spotlight.
Yeah it sounds like her parents did the freakshows circut to satisfy the curiousity it of the public, got money for her medical care and college, then went private. Which is a good move. Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hendel or whatever their name is parents did the same thing, and last I heard they were living pretty success lives having gone to college and traveling.
Yeah it sounds like her parents did the freakshows circut to satisfy the curiousity it of the public, got money for her medical care and college, then went private. Which is a good move. Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hendel or whatever their name is parents did the same thing, and last I heard they were living pretty success lives having gone to college and traveling.
Yeah all things considered it sounds like they've done very well for themselves. Hell they probably are better off than a lot of teachers thanks to freakshows money, like they can probably afford to buy supplies for their students and shit.
I actually found out some information after searching a bit more. She's apparently doing well. She made the dean's list for her middle and high school, and she plays in her high school's concert orchestra. I didn't find any stories or pictures about this, just her name listed in her school's rosters.
Honestly, that makes me really happy to read. I'm glad her mother didn't try to keep Juliana in the spotlight.
While some people criticized the Wetmores I actually thought they seemed like good parents dealing well with an unimaginably difficult situation. Her deformities were so extreme and visible “raising awareness” probably did a lot of good for Julianne, in terms of helping create a people understanding and sympathetic of her condition. After that was accomplished they got out of the spotlight.
Adopting another girl with the same condition who needed help and a family, with the bonus of being a companion with some understanding for Julianne, was cool too. All of them seem like good eggs to me.
The problem with Memphis is that the problem just keeps spreading outwards, completely unrestrained. There were parts of town that were safe and decent 20 years ago, but because boomers love mcmansions, the post-WW2 suburbs all went to shit once the original owners started to die. Even the businesses outside the city are going to shit from crime. When does it end? Will Memphis keep expanding outwards 20 miles every 20 years, until it collides with Cincinnati?
The problem with Memphis is that the problem just keeps spreading outwards, completely unrestrained. There were parts of town that were safe and decent 20 years ago, but because boomers love mcmansions, the post-WW2 suburbs all went to shit once the original owners started to die. Even the businesses outside the city are going to shit from crime. When does it end? Will Memphis keep expanding outwards 20 miles every 20 years, until it collides with Cincinnati?
I feel sorry for the Samuel kid, because he is not a total vegetable and he got the awareness of a small baby but has all these problems and his head seems to be so heavy it looks difficult to hold it up. You can see through his ginormous face the genuine smile of a baby, and that makes me sad.
Samuel Mann is actually lucky-in a twisted ironic way. He has just enough cognitive function to be aware of his surroundings and respond to positive stimuli, but not enough to recognize how awful his condition is.
A&H has had a noticeable pro-life retardation infestation for a while, largely due to all the /pol/ rejects that hang out there. I've seen them support shit like Alabama's fucked up laws that would force children to give birth to rape babies.
Personally I think prolifers definitely deserve a thread, or that we should have a general fundie nonsense thread since this one is more specifically for fucked up fundie offspring.
Speaking of pro-life retardation, I saw this recently and am delighted to see prolifers are shilling classic Satanic Panic bullshit 30 years after the Satanic Panic ended.
A&H has had a noticeable pro-life exceptionalism infestation for a while, largely due to all the /pol/ rejects that hang out there. I've seen them support shit like Alabama's fucked up laws that would force children to give birth to rape babies.
Personally I think prolifers definitely deserve a thread, or that we should have a general fundie nonsense thread since this one is more specifically for fucked up fundie offspring.
Speaking of pro-life exceptionalism, I saw this recently and am delighted to see prolifers are shilling classic Satanic Panic bullshit 30 years after the Satanic Panic ended.
I don't agree with abortion but I also don't agree with bringing a child into this world that's just going to suffer terribly its entire life either. The children in this thread don't have any quality of life.
While some people criticized the Wetmores I actually thought they seemed like good parents dealing well with an unimaginably difficult situation. Her deformities were so extreme and visible “raising awareness” probably did a lot of good for Julianne, in terms of helping create a people understanding and sympathetic of her condition. After that was accomplished they got out of the spotlight.
Adopting another girl with the same condition who needed help and a family, with the bonus of being a companion with some understanding for Julianne, was cool too. All of them seem like good eggs to me.
I never really had a problem with Juliana's parents either. While I dislike parents who exploit their children, disabled or otherwise, and use them to get money and attention for themselves, I never got the feeling her mom and dad were like that. I think they realized that Juliana's condition was so extreme, that she was inevitably going to be noticed and get attention. Knowing that she was never going to be able to be completely anonymous, they did just enough media for people to be able to learn about Juliana and her condition. That way it wouldn't not be such a shock to people who meet her for the first time and instead of responding negatively, they might say something like "Hey, that's Juliana Wetmore, I saw her on TV a few years ago, I hope she's doing Ok."
I know that's sort of what Chris from SBSK claims to be trying to do and I've actually attempted to not dislike him, but as we've previously talked about, there's just something so off putting and fake about him, that its difficult to appreciate whatever good he might be doing.
Speaking of Malibu Ken and Juliana Wetmore, the subject of his latest interview somewhat reminds me of her, This person is grown man with a different condition, but like Juliana, he's is horrifically deformed, while having a normal intelligence and total awareness of the world around him... He suffers from Neurofibromatosis. Fun Fact, NF used to be known as The Elephant man's disease until scientists figured out that the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick actually had a different condition.
Anyway, this guy seemed quite intelligent and well spoken. He knows exactly how people see him and he actually expressed concern about frightening other people. It was pretty sad hearing him talk about some of the negative experiences he's had with people. I think in many ways its so much worse to be that physically deformed with a normal brain then it is to be a freakish looking retard or near-vegetable who has no concept of the outside world like the late Hartley sisters or the also late Sophia Weaver. Sophia was more aware of her surroundings than the Hartelys, but I doubt she had any concept of how strangers viewed her which was definitely a good thing.
Video of the guy is below but be warned, his appearance is messed up.
Reggie is a 55 year old man who has tumors all over his body and is diagnosed with neurofibromatosis. He fears that others will be scared of his appearance. ...
Again, a case of Down syndrome not being that benign happy-person type everyone imagines. Learned about Robertsonian translocation and I secretly wonder if it produces worse phenotypes.
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