A strange congenital condition has reportedly caused a woman to shrink two feet in ten years.
Due to this rare condition, Kunti Kumari, 25, has weak limbs that stretch and bend.
She now spends her days lying on a cot, chatting with her mother and staring at the ceiling when she has по сотрапу.
Her mother, 60-year-old Tilakwa Devi, can’t stop crying when she sees her youngest daughter’s unusual condition, which she says makes her look like a “corpse”.
Kunti, who lives in an Indian village, has been bedridden for eight years. She is extremely weak and depends on her widowed mother for all her needs.
Tilakwa said: “She was a normal, healthy girl: ‘She was a normal girl with healthy limbs, but when she became a teenager, her bones started to weaken and she found it difficult to walk.
“She limped a little, but gradually she lost all strength and began to shrink.
“Eight years after the onset of this mysterious illness, she completely lost her strength and found herself bedridden.
Kunti, whose older siblings – two brothers and one sister – are unaffected, underwent surgery to treat her left leg, which had become very fragile.
But after a month of relief, her condition began to deteriorate and she lost strength in all her limbs.
“That’s when my mother took me to a doctor for treatment. The bone specialist operated on my left leg, but after a month I couldn’t move my leg.”
Mother and daughter are now hoping for a miracle to cure the disease and get Kunti back on her feet.
They are also receiving help from other villagers who are offering money and arranging appointments with doctors in larger towns.
The mother of four declared: “We don’t have the money to get Kunti treated: “We don’t have the money for advanced medical treatment. The little I had, I gave for her first operation, but now I have по тоnеу.
“Even preparing two meals a day is a daunting task for us.
“But now, with the help of some villagers, we hope to go to the city and meet doctors. We’re still short of money, so let’s see what God has in store for us.”
Dr Satyendra Singh, a civil surgeon in Chatra, who was informed of the girl’s condition by villagers, believes that Kunti suffers from a rare bone disease.
