Mutilated illness woman learned to love their looks

Victim hardest neurofibromatosis learned to live with her terrible disease. Now she is no longer shy of people, and even works with children.

Neurofibromatosis

In 15 years, the Englishwoman Charlotte Hawkins knew that she begins neurofibromatosis   the first type. At first, she noticed a small seal on the skin of the upper back. Surgeons removed the bumps, but did not come back soon, and after 10 years the woman has It was not like himself. Her face and body were covered with benign tumors that resemble bubbles.

Neurofibromatosis

Today, 64-year-old woman is a victim of one of the most severe cases neurofibromatosis   at USA. For years it remained a voluntary recluse in his own house, because she was ashamed to go out. People looked at her, showing and released his fingers dirty tricks. But today, women are involved in the work children's school organized by the local church, which helps children.

Neurofibromatosis

"I like to play with children - says Charlotte. - I like to read them stories. They help me feel young again. Previously, children in the streets and in shopping malls screaming with fear when they saw me. Now everything is much calmer. "

Neurofibromatosis

Neurologist Dr. Coruna Shah says that neurofibromatosis is a genetic disorder that is passed between members of one family by abnormal gene in the chromosome. "Charlotte comes to me for regular audits, - says Dr. Shah. - We can only check the individual tumor, to see no change in their size and color. We also regularly check the eyes, as neurofibromatosis optic nerve tumors arise on the rear eyeballs, which can lead to blindness. Alas, her eyesight with age will only get worse. "(Read More)

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