Watching a special on TLC tonight about Mandy Sellars, a British woman who was born with a severe deformity, causing her legs and feet to grow abnormally large in comparison to the rest of her body.
She's in her 30s and her legs continue to grow. It sounds like she had one of her legs amputated earlier this year to help relieve some of the side effects associated with the syndrome.
But get this: on her website, she has a page where she blogs about all of the concerts she's been to.
I started choking up after seeing that.
Mandy is making the most of her life. This is a woman who was born in 1975 with a very visible abnormality, and "it wasn't until a few weeks later that i was actually allowed home with my parents as the doctors did not know if i would live or die, but hey I'm still here at 33 having fun!" (sic)
Her courage is astounding. We live in a world where woman fret over additional weight or circles under their eyes or less-than-perfect labia -- and this woman struggles with her body growing so fast that her heart could fail.
Time to take a step back and remember how blessed I am.
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