The teenager, from a village near the city of Yibin, in southern China's Sichuan Province, began showing symptoms at the age of eight - and saw a succession of doctors before being diagnosed.
Her family had become concerned about the strange lumps that were appearing under her skin and her gaunt appearance.Finally, specialists at Tongji Hospital in Shanghai revealed she was suffering from Stone Man Syndrome.
The disease, which has no cure, is considered one of the most disabling genetic conditions. It causes bone to form in muscles, tendons, ligaments and other connective tissues.
Over time, this extra bone progressively restricts movement, forming a second skeleton that imprisons the body in bone.It eventually results in a gruesome death when the cartilage holding the ribs together also solidifies, making it impossible to breathe.
The patients eventually suffocate or suffer massive cardiac arrest as their bodies attempt to get enough oxygen.Despite the poor prognosis, doctors treating Ni say they hope to delay the onset of her symptoms, in a bid to prolong her life.
Ni says if a cure is ever discovered, she is determined to become a doctor herself and help others recover from the illness.
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.... The Forbidden Fruits After that day, the boys never went to the orange tree again and the story that it was a forbidden fruit was retold and everyone believed it, even the four boys. Though they knew it was not the forbidden fruits of the Bible but Mr. Jacob's forbidden fruits. Garba was angry when he learnt that it was Bawa who had told on him. They all began to avoid Bawa. But all these had been over thirty-five years ago. They grown and become men. Garba had turned out to be the star of them all, having excelled in school and had gone to Lagos and then to England. He returned to Dongongari and settled down. Now all the boys who went to the St. Aquinas now have children. But they all still sit together on weekends and talk of the past. Mr. Jacob and the forbidden fruits was always an exciting topic and they would laugh. "Only God know where the white master is today," Sule would say with nostalgia. "Perhaps long dead and buried," Tanko would say. "But he was a terror," Bawa reminded. He had succeeded. his father as the tobacco merchant in ,Jogongan even though he was once a banker. Garba would laugh. "Come to think of it, he was a good man. The lesson of the forbidden fruits was that of obedience. We ought to have obeyed him as our elder and teacher," he said: They all agreed with him. The End .... TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW...JOIN US TOMORROW FOR MORE ON THIS FUNNY AND EXCITING STORY }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
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