Would it bother you if these were playing footsie with you at night?
These people can say they’re unique. But is this perfect way to be unique ? I don’t want to sound offending but to me these feet look very strange and I really feel sorry for these people. For three friends on the last picture is probably much easier because they have a mutual support. Despite all, i hope they haven’t big problem with shoes..

Here is an amazing story about Hannah Clark is a 16-year-old with a shy laugh and a love of animals and babies. She likes to go shopping with friends and dreams of a career working with children.
But Hannah Clark is no ordinary teenager and her normal life today could not have been possible without a unique, life-changing heart surgery. In 1994 when she was eight-months-old, Hannah was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy — an inflammation of the heart muscle that impairs the heart’s ability to work properly.

Hannah’s heart was failing and she needed a transplant. But instead of taking her own heart out, doctors added a new donated heart to her own when she was just two-years-old. The so-called “piggyback” operation allowed the donor heart to do the work while Hannah’s heart rested. But Hannah was not in the clear yet. As with any organ transplant, Hannah’s body was likely to reject her new heart and she had to take powerful immune suppression drugs.

Those drugs allowed her body to accept the donor heart but also led to cancer and yet another medical battle for Hannah that lasted for years.  Nearly 11 years after receiving the extra heart, there was more bad news: The immuno-suppression drugs were no longer working. Hannah’s body was rejecting the donor heart.

In February 2006, her doctors tried something that had never been done before: They took out the donor heart. Doctors theorized that the donor heart had allowed Hannah’s heart to rest, recover and grow back stronger.  Now for the first time Hannah’s father, Paul Clark, describes the agonizing decision the family had to make at the time: “If she’d never had it done, she wouldn’t be here.

“In the very beginning it was a 50/50 chance she wasn’t going to make the operation. But in the next one it was even greater because it had never been done before. But we had to take that risk,” he told CNN. The doctors were right. Three years later, Hannah has no need for any drugs and has been given a clean bill of health. The operation was a success.

“It means everything to me,” Hannah told CNN after the pioneering operation. “I thought I’d still have problems when I had this operation done. I thought after the heart had been removed I thought I’d have to visit hospitals. But now I’m just free,” she said, smiling. Dr. Magdi Yacoub performed Hannah’s original transplant and came out of retirement to perform the second.

“The possibility of recovery of the heart is just like magic.” Dr. Yacoub said at a media conference. “[We had] a heart which was not contracting at all at the time. We put the new heart to be pumping next to it and take its work, now [it] is functioning normally.”

The findings have been published in the British medical journal, this seems like a true miracle.  I am curious how the old heart was able to still beat, because you think as a muscle that was not being used it would have went into atrophy.

credits : allweirdnews.com

The therapy involved cleaning out the finger and removing scar tissue — a process called debridement — and then dipping her finger into MatriStem wound powder. After seven weeks of treatment, her fingertip grew back (as shown in the before and after photos)

(CNN) — After running inside from a rainstorm one Friday evening last January, Deepa Kulkarni leaned against the doorway with her right hand to take off her boots. Then, in an effort to make sure the dog didn’t get out, someone slammed the door hard, and it landed right on her pinky.

Kulkarni thought the door had only bruised her finger, but then she looked down and saw the tip of her pinky lying on the floor.

“I swooped down and picked it up before the dog got it,” she remembers. “At first I was fine, but then I saw the blood — there was so much blood — and I felt woozy.”

Her husband, Ajit, called an ambulance, and as soon as his parents arrived to take care of their two young children, Kulkarni retrieved her pinky tip from the freezer — it had broken off just above the base of her fingernail — and they headed from their home in Davis, California, to the emergency room.

That trip to the hospital was the beginning of a five-week odyssey — one that involved defying doctors, e-mailing specialists around the country and — in her words — being pushy and demanding in order to make her pinky whole again.

’100 percent chance of failure’

“The doctor who was on call at the emergency room told me there was no way he could reattach my pinky,” she says. “I didn’t like that, so I asked to see a specialist.”

An orthopedic surgeon concurred with the ER doctor, and made an additional recommendation: He’d have to amputate even more of the finger so it would heal properly.

“I was like, no way, with so much technology out there, there must be some other way to do this,” she said. “But he said he wouldn’t even attempt to reattach it. He said was there was a 100 percent chance of failure,” she remembers.

Disappointed but defiant, Kulkarni declined the surgeon’s treatment, and the doctors sent her home with a bandaged finger and painkillers.

‘I am writing to you out of desperation.’

Arriving home at midnight, Kulkarni fell asleep, and the next morning immediately got on her computer. With her nine functioning fingers she searched for hope — any hope — that her pinky could be repaired.

Kulkarni, a former human resources manager who is now in law school full time, was accustomed to doing research, but after searching for hours, she still couldn’t find any new ideas for reattachment.

She did, however, find something else: stories on “60 Minutes” and “Oprah” about a relatively new procedure called tissue regeneration, which had made amputated finger parts grow back for other patients.

She went to the website for Dr. Stephen Badylak, the University of Pittsburgh physician who helped pioneer the procedure. A little more searching revealed his e-mail address.

“Dear Dr. Badylak,” she began. “I am writing to you out of desperation…I ran across your article on the internet and decided to write to you. Can you tell me if [tissue regeneration] works and what my options are to get the treatment?”

She heard back the next day, a Sunday, from one of Dr. Badylak’s colleagues. He gave her more details about the procedure, and some bad news: He didn’t know of any doctors near her using regenerative medicine.

She e-mailed him photos of her damaged pinky, and he said the team of doctors in Pittsburgh would review them and decide whether they could help her. In the meantime, Kulkarni sent out an all-call in search of a physician near them who used tissue regeneration.

“I e-mailed people at UCLA and Berkeley, and my husband and I called everyone we knew who was a doctor or might know a doctor,” she says.

Still, no one had any ideas for her. One friend introduced her to Dr. Malathi Srinivasan, an internist at the University of California-Davis Medical Center, who called Kulkarni from her cell phone while driving home from a skiing trip at Lake Tahoe.

Srinivasan didn’t know any doctors with experience in tissue regeneration, but she did give her something Kulkarni badly needed at this point: hope.

“I encouraged her to keep looking, and I did some PubMed searches myself,” Srinivasan says, referring to the National Library of Medicine’s online collection of research materials.

Seven weeks later, a new pinky

Eventually, Kulkarni made an appointment with Dr. Michael Peterson, an orthopedic surgeon in Davis. At first, Kulkarni says he was hesitant to try tissue regeneration since he hadn’t done it before, but she gave him some research materials, and she says eventually he agreed to try it.

The therapy involved cleaning out the finger and removing scar tissue — a process called debridement — and then dipping her finger into MatriStem wound powder. After seven weeks of treatment, her fingertip grew back (as shown in the before and after photos above).

“Even now it’s not perfect. It’s shorter than the other pinky, but just by looking at it you can’t tell it was an amputated finger,” she says. “I’m able to do everything I could do before. I wash dishes. I cook,” she says, adding that she’s had physical therapy to decrease tingling in her finger caused by severed nerves.

Kulkarni still keeps her severed pinky tip in the freezer. She thawed it out so CNN could take a photograph of the pinky tip alongside her regenerated finger.