The mysterious case of a girl of thirteen years with aspect of six months
Brooke Greenberg will turn thirteen years but it has the aspect and the body of a girl of six months. Its disease does not have name and the doctors do not know another case similar. The history of Brooke is truly unusual, and by the same it generates doubts as far as his veracity. For that reason her family presents/displays a video to confirm that it is not a joke and that is as real as the same ignorance of the medicine on the subject.
Brooke was born the 8 from January of 1993, is closely together to turn its thirteen years. But, it acts, it physically shines and one moves like a baby of 6 months or a little more. It is as if Brooke had been congealed in the time. Its disease does not have name and another similar case is not known in the world. A new mystery for the medical community.
Brooke was born to the 36 weeks of gestation, weighed 1.84 kg and was born with a breakup of the hip, by which it had to be operated. Nevertheless to the year, the preoccupation of its parents, Howard and Melanie, changed.
They began to observe, disturbed, that her daughter (third of the four Greenberg children) did not grow. They looked for specialists: endocrinólogos and dieticians. They tried with the growth hormone, but they did not obtain it. It did not get fat nor it grew. Although its body is not seen that it ages, its health is deteriorated. It has had severe respiratory problems, I spill cerebral, ulcers and even a tumor that was treated successfully. The specialists have remained perplex, have gone to prestigious institutions, but they have not obtained any reason of its state.
To its 12 years it weighs only 6 kilos and almost 70 centimeters of height. They continue taking care of it as one drinks during 12 years. She must be fed through a tube, but its health has become stabilized. One does not hope that it grows and nobody can say whatever will survive. The Greenberg maintains a life as normal as it is possible to them. They even take it to a school for children with special needs.
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