An Indian woman whose face is ‘melting’ has explained what it is like to live with the disease.
Sharanjeet Kaur was only 15 years old when a tumor began to grow on her face, but she was unable to raise the finances to pay for the costly therapy.
The 38-year-old lives with her husband in Phagwara, a city in northern India’s Punjab province, around 85 miles from Pakistan’s capital, Lahore, which is about the same distance as Philadelphia and New York City.
While treatment to ‘correct’ her disease is available, Kaur and her husband are still unable to afford it, although she is now literally blind.
She told me, “I had a tumor on my face at 15 years old, which completely damaged one of my eyes.”
I am unable to see, even with my other eye. As a result, I’ve had to deal with a variety of issues.
“Despite not having eyes, I do all the household work very well.”
Kaur went on to add that her husband, who is also blind, has been able to find work despite his impairment.
She said, “My spouse is also blind, but he performs all of the tasks properly.
“My family and husband are quite impoverished, and they cannot afford my pricey therapy.”
“The doctors advise that the treatment for my husband and I will be costly, but we lack the necessary income to cover these costs.”
Tragically, the tumor has grown and deformed Kaur’s entire face, making it appear to be ‘melting off’.
In India, a woman became the first female on the earth to wear a man’s hands, and she observed some startling alterations after the transplant.
Eight years ago, Shreya Siddanagowder, 18, was involved in a tragic bus accident that resulted in the loss of both arms below the elbow.
However, instead of wallowing in self-pity, which is perfectly normal, it has become something of “her making.”
Siddanagowder claimed that prosthetic hands “didn’t work for her” after testing them, so in 2017, 16 anesthesiologists and 20 surgeons performed a 13-hour transplant procedure on her.
A 21-year-old who tragically died in a cycling accident donated her hands.
In a 2019 Facebook video for the MOHAN Foundation, an Indian organ donation and transplantation organization, Siddanagowder advised viewers to value their hands because they are ‘one of the finest assets you may possibly have’.