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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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 Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:11 am Post subject: "Tree Man" gets a trim |
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402103,00.html
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The Indonesian man dubbed "Tree Man" is expected to return home to his remote village at the end of this month after undergoing extensive surgeries, ABC News reported.
Dede Koswara, 37, has been covered with bark-like warts for more than 20 years. The growths are believed to be caused by the human papillomavirus and began to appear on his skin after he cut his leg when he was 15.
Within a decade, the warts had grown so large that he had to quit his job as a fisherman and joined a freak show to support himself.
Koswara finally received the medical attention he needed after his story made international headlines. In the past nine months, surgeons at a hospital in Bandung, Indonesia, have performed eight operations on him to remove massive amounts of dead skin tissue, it was reported.
"The surgery of Dede is not perfect, but the results meet what we hoped or expected," Dr. Hardisiswo Soedjana, the head plastic surgeon in the case, told ABC News.
Koswara, a father of two, is not out of the woods yet. He will return to the hospital for two more major surgeries in the coming months, according to the report. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:10 am Post subject: Re: "Tree Man" gets a trim |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402103,00.html
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The Indonesian man dubbed "Tree Man" is expected to return home to his remote village at the end of this month after undergoing extensive surgeries, ABC News reported.
Dede Koswara, 37, has been covered with bark-like warts for more than 20 years. The growths are believed to be caused by the human papillomavirus and began to appear on his skin after he cut his leg when he was 15.
Within a decade, the warts had grown so large that he had to quit his job as a fisherman and joined a freak show to support himself.
Koswara finally received the medical attention he needed after his story made international headlines. In the past nine months, surgeons at a hospital in Bandung, Indonesia, have performed eight operations on him to remove massive amounts of dead skin tissue, it was reported.
"The surgery of Dede is not perfect, but the results meet what we hoped or expected," Dr. Hardisiswo Soedjana, the head plastic surgeon in the case, told ABC News.
Koswara, a father of two, is not out of the woods yet. He will return to the hospital for two more major surgeries in the coming months, according to the report. |
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1) I misread that as "Bundang," as I often do.
2) Don't these sites have copy editors? |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| The "not out of the woods yet" comment is completely tasteless in a common sort of way. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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(1)He has two kids? What does his girlfriend/wife look like? If she's hot..
(2) It's dead tissue? like dead? Couldn't he have chopped it off himself? Or do I not understand "dead tissue" correctly.
(3) He's probably been supporting his family with his freak show earnings. Is their collective income going to drop massively now he's not going to be earning that anymore?
Anyway, poor guy. I'm glad I never caught that from a cut leg. |
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allarise
Joined: 06 Apr 2008
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Those pictures always give me the heebie jeebies. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Tree Man! (Instead of "Heeman!") |
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