Charmaine Sahadeo has a rare disease; the tumors were disrupting his ability to breathe, look, walk, eat and speak.
Summary
Charmaine Sahadeo, 42, traveled 6,000km to Los Angeles, US, to perform a series of surgeries to remove tumors covering her body while she suffered from the disease Neurofibromatosis NF-1.
A rare disease called NF-1 neurofibromatosis led Charmaine Sahadeo, 42, to travel more than 6,000km to Los Angeles, US, to perform a series of surgeries to remove dozens of tumors covering her body. The tumors were disrupting his ability to breathe, see, walk, eat and speak.
Neurofibromatosis type 1, also known as von Recklinghausen disease, affects 1 in 3,000 people. The condition is linked to a genetic mutation and is characterized by the growth of thousands of small tumors on the skin.
The woman, who lives in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago, started developing the tumors when she was 13. They were initially small. But over the course of her life they grew larger and larger, until she could no longer see well. Her biggest fear was not being able to breathe or call for help and dying alone if things got out of control, according to Britain’s Daily Star newspaper.
More than 60 hours of interventions were carried out, spread over 10 weeks. The treatment is long, since with each surgery, in addition to the tumors, part of the skin is also removed, which can increase the risk of infections. That is why operations must be performed in parts.
After the first result, Charmaine was delighted in an interview on the TLC television network, while being treated by the specialized surgeons of the program Take My Tumor. “I see well and, above all, I breathe much better (…) I feel beautiful, really beautiful now, fantastic”, she said.
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