12 Unique People With Missing Body Parts

You know, you may not think it so easy, but it is very possible to live a life without some

parts

of your

body

. In fact, some of these

people

proved that they could live without their lungs and even their hearts, so let's take a look at some of them.

people

who have proven that they can survive in any situation number one Tina Earls in 2012 Tina Earls discovered a sore on her nose every time she turned her head to the left she experienced a runny nose and numbness on the left side of her nose. her face along with persistent itching, the itching only got worse until October 2013, when she went to the doctor, who told her that she had an infected hair follicle;

However, in January 2014, Tina noticed a lump on the side of her nose and visited a nose and throat specialist, but was told it was just a scratch. The lump continued to grow over the next few months despite trying six antibiotics. different and using ointment her nose just wasn't getting better Tina became increasingly worried when she went to another ENT doctor in Dallas for a biopsy in April 2014, when the doctor called with the results, he gave her the devastating news that Tina had cancer, she He was surprised and felt that his life and that of his children were passing before his eyes.

Tina underwent a partial rhinotomy where part of her nose was removed. she continued to have scar scans and biopsies even though doctors removed the first two layers of tissue from the inside of her nose during surgery. The cancer turned out to be much worse than they had initially thought. The doctors recommended radiotherapy, but she didn't want Tina. To spend her days in treatment she wanted to take care of her children, so she contacted the Cancer Treatment Centers of the United States and a week later she was in Chicago seeing a hand and neck specialist, the doctor discovered that there were still cancers. cells present, so Tina underwent another partial rhinectomy after several surgeries.

Tina was declared cancer-free, but with a high probability of the cancer returning rather than continuing to undergo surgeries. Tina made the difficult decision to have her nose completely removed to reduce the risk of the cancer returning. and staying safe despite the changes in her appearance Tina chose to prioritize her health and well-being number two Eric Ramirez mirik Ramirez who was 22 years old from Colombia is best known as kalaka target with a bunch of scary tattoos all over his face and

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after his mother died when he was 12 the body modification fanatic began changing himself first he got a tattoo of his mother's face on his back then he wanted to look like a live human skull Eric had a tattoo artist friend cut off the tips of his nose and ear, this gave him a strange look that went viral on the internet, the father of one told the Lost Informatis reporter that he plans to cut off his genitals so that he remains completely flat like a rotten skeleton, he explained that all We are the same so it didn't matter if you are a boy, a girl, a man or an old man.

Ramirez talked about how much he thought about dying, explaining that he would like to be buried two meters underground. He felt that being next to the dead felt like being in peace but where there is not so much pain, he says he would laugh when people shouted about his appearance and that pain is like medicine to him. Eric also cut his tongue in half and added gray color and it has dark color. eye sockets permanently tattooed on his face, he also had bones that looked like teeth around his mouth. The 22-year-old's macabre appearance has also been criticized by the media and people in Colombia, but his Instagram is full of photos of fans greeting him on the street. and taking selfies with him number three Craig Lewis Craig Lewis a man from Texas went to the Texas Heart Institute because he had amyloid Isis a disease that can kill amyloid Oasis is a very rare disease that has been reported by less than 10 million people around In this case, in the world, a thick and sticky layer of protein begins to accumulate in the kidney, heart and liver, which are very important organs.

No cure has yet been found for the disease, so in March 2011, when a 55-year-old man said he was having problems and was worried that not even a pacemaker could save him at the time because his health was so bad that Surgeons spent decades trying and failing to make a machine that wouldn't break down or cause blood clots or infections, finally two doctors at the Texas Heart Institute came up with a way to pump blood throughout the body without a heartbeat. This device uses rotating rotors. Dr. Billy Conn and Dr. Buzz Frazier first tested the idea on an eight-month-old calf named Abigail, who had her heart removed and successfully replaced. with two centrifugal pumps pumping blood through her body, brought out national public radio that by every measure we use to look at patients, she was dead, but everyone could see that she was a healthy, happy, and playful catheterist after the practice gone in 38 calves Khan and Frazier moved on to testing on humans and that's when they chose Craig Lewis as their test subject.

The damage to Lewis' heart was so severe that doctors told him he only had about 12 hours to live. At that point, his wife Linda suggested doing something drastic, so Lewis agreed to the solution and lo and behold, he came out of surgery and was alive and well. Number Four Tiffany Geiger Tiffany Geigle never thought she would become a professional dancer, which was the goal of her dream guy who was 33 years old and born Jarco Levin. syndrome, which is a rare genetic bone disorder that often causes a curved spine and a short neck and torso. As a child, she didn't think much about her condition and she wasn't treated any differently because of it, she even took dance classes with other kids in her Brooklyn New York neighborhood but she says her dance teacher was honest with her.

He told her clearly that he didn't think it was possible that Geigle had the technique, the legs, the arms, and she was beautiful, but the truth is that she doesn't look like what the world wants from ballet. Geigle remembers. She knew they weren't lying to me. I know what you mean. I said she wished she could be a dancer, but I knew it couldn't happen. Geigle began to realize how different she was. As time passed, her friends told people that officials at her high school tried to stop her from joining the band. Geigle says her mother always fought for her to be included in student activities, even when school leaders said no.

Geigle then gave up on her. She dreamed of dancing and went to college to study business, but sometimes she taught dance classes in New York because she thought she couldn't do anything else in the industry. Heidi Latsky, owner of an integrated dance company for dancers with disabilities in New York City, took notice. Geigel a few years ago, Latsky knew he wanted Geigle to join his dance company, but Geigel was nervous about entering professional dance due to her condition, but in 2014 she finally said yes to Latsky and joined Heidi's dance. Latsky during the spring season. She does at least. two shows a day with the company Geigel says I never thought she would be in a dance company performing in New York City.

I never imagined my face and body would be all over Time Square. All the things I never thought would happen are happening. Geigle says that even though her dreams are coming true, she is laughed at and picked on almost every day in New York. Geigel says that even with all the bad things, she is grateful for her family and friends who support her number five. Paul Alexander Paul Alexander of Texas was not feeling well on a hot summer day in 1952 he had a high fever in his neck and a headache the six year old boy contracted polio and could not move or speak or swallow for a few days Alexander, who He is now 75 years old.

The old man, almost completely paralyzed from the neck down, is still alive and healthy thanks to a large steel fan that has helped him breathe for almost 70 years. According to the New York Post's Andrew Court, he is one of the last people to use an iron lung that was common at polio awards at the height of the disease's spread, Alexander said in a recent video interview with the narrator. Mitch Summers. I have never given up and I will not start now that the man with the iron lung has not been stopped by the doctors. device that keeps him alive, instead he used it as a way to get ahead in life after getting good grades in high school and being rejected by Southern Methodist University.

He got a scholarship to go there. Linda Rodriguez Mcrobbie of The Guardian writes in a 2020 article that he went to school in a wheelchair when he was able to leave the iron lung for a short time. Linda Hasko of pennlive.com says Alexander earned a juris doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law in 1984 and worked as a lawyer. In 2020, Alexander wrote a book called Three Minutes for a Dog, My Life in an Iron Lung, it was about what had happened, he worked on it for five years writing each word by hand with a pen and a stick that he held in his hand. mouth.

In the video he said that he wanted to do things that people told him he couldn't do and he achieved the dreams that he had number six. Henry Gustav Malaysen Henry Malaysen, a young man from Hartford Connecticut, lost his memory in 1953, which led to the birth of neuroscience. Henry Malaysian's amnesia was caused by a dangerous psychosurgical operation that was intended to cure the crippling epilepsy that he suffered from since he was a child in order to get rid of the part of Henry's brain that was causing his seizures. Two holes were drilled in the front of his skull, the front half of both sides of the hippocampus and most of the almond-shaped amygdala were sucked out.

The surgery, which was hopeful at best, went very wrong and Henry, who was 27 at the time, was unable to store or remember any new experiences. He continued to live in the present moment for the next 55 years until he died in 2008. On the other hand, Henry's tragedy may have been the most important step toward understanding how memory works in the last 100 years before his surgery, People thought that memory was something the whole brain did because of an accident during its surgery. It has been shown that much of the localization capacity was in one place. Henry's amnesia was clean, so braining him was a great way to study how the mind works.

Also in many other ways after surgery he lived with his parents for a while and then with caregivers to keep his identity a secret. Science called it hm because of these initials. A young graduate student named Suzanne Corkin, who is now a professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the head of the Corkin lab met him, it almost seemed like they were destined to be together when Corkin read about Henry's case. in medical journals in the late 1950s and discovered that their lives had already intersected in strange ways. She grew up a few miles from him in Connecticut and was a little girl.

She lived across the street from the surgeon who had operated on Henry's brain. She was friends with the surgeon's daughter when they were young and Corkin talked about Henry in 1962 as part of their research. together for the next 46 years, but for Henry it was always the first time Corkin wrote a compelling memoir called permanent present tense about the bond between scientist and subject. Henry once said it well, it's strange, but you just have to live and learn, you're learning, but I live in number seven. Dallas Weems The Dallas wings of Fort Worth Texas were badly scarred when he touched a high-voltage power line in 2008.

He suffered a horrific injury while painting Ridgely Baptist. Church in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 13, 2008, he was standing in an elevator when a high-voltage wire touched his forehead after being taken by helicopter to Parkland Memorial Hospital. The burned skin was removed in more than a dozen debridement procedures that lasted approximately two months. As part of this process, they removed his left eyeball and replaced his right eye, then placed a flap of skin over his right eye to protect it from further damage. Dallas Wings got the first full face transplant in the US in a year. He can now smell and feel his daughter's kisses again, which had always been one of my wishes during a press conference.

Wiens also added that his children made him cry more than once and now doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston say he is improving. He thought he had fake eyes but he is still blind. He also has no teeth, which makes it difficult for him to speak, but he can do more with his face than you think. Every time they see him in the clinic he does more things and. He feels more, he is starting to smile and doctors can see how he feels on his face, according to Dr. Jeffrey Janus, who is in charge of plastic surgery number eight.

Terry FoxTerry Fox played many sports as a teenager, such as basketball, football, track and field, but everything changed at the age of 18 when he was told he had osteogenic sarcoma, which is a rare type of bone cancer, to prevent cancer. spread, they had to cut off his right leg above the knee and undergo chemotherapy, but he was back. his feet three weeks after surgery Terry said seeing so many people in hospital dying or getting sick from cancer was even harder than losing his leg, although he was happy that medical advances had led to higher survival rates, he was sad because not enough money was being spent on cancer research Terry decided to run from east to west across Canada to raise money for cancer research his goal was to get one dollar from every Canadian.

He began his Marathon of Hope on April 1, 1980 at the easternmost point of Canada. Every day he ran 26 miles, which is almost a marathon. Doug Albert, his best friend, and Daryl Fox, his brother, followed him in a truck to help him. Terry would get up at 4 am, run 12 miles and then rest in the afternoon, run 14 miles and ask people for money along the road he set a high goal because he believed in miracles, it must not be simply because he knew that worthwhile things don't come easily, many people told him he was crazy for doing this but if it makes him happy Terry was happy to be crazy on September 1, 1980 he had trouble breathing while running outside of Thunder Bay Ontario He was taken to the hospital where doctors discovered that his cancer had spread to his lungs.

The Canadians continued to work on Terry's goal while he was in the hospital by organizing a nationwide Telethon. Terry received Canada's highest civilian honor, Companion of the Order of Canada; he was the youngest person to earn this award a few months later. On June 28, 1981 he died, but not before having raised $24 million for cancer research, which was goal number nine of his. Cassidy Hooper Cassidy Hooper was one of the few people in the world to be born without eyes or a nose in 2008 when she was 11 years old. The old world first knew her when Cassidy Hooper ran track in her high school, worked as an usher at concerts, helped at a charity event, and took a bus alone from Charlotte to Raleigh every week to go to the Governor's main school.

Moore. Blind WBTV, which has followed Hooper's story since she was 11, said she earned an Associate of Arts degree from Central Piedmont Community College on Thursday. Hooper has always followed her motto, she said: I don't need the easy, I just need the possible from when she was a child to the time she had a series of reconstructive surgeries Now that she graduated from college, the 22-year-old is surprised by how quickly he passed his time there, even though he walked across the stage at his graduation, he told WBTV. out there and I thought, wait a minute, this is happening in my room awake in a dream.

I couldn't believe how quickly time went by number 10 Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius is a former sprinter from South Africa due to a birth defect he had to suffer from both feet. be cut off when he was only 11 months old because he was born without the outside of both feet and both fibulas Pistorius ran in sprint races for able-bodied people and for people who had their legs cut off below the knee, he was the tenth athlete to take Pistorius participated in both the Olympic and Paralympic Games after winning gold medals at the Paralympic Games. Pistorius attempted to compete in international events for able-bodied people, however, the International Association of Athletics Federations continued to say that his prosthesis gave him an unfair advantage and this challenged Pistorius legally. won on February 14, 2013 his life changed dramatically the world learned that Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend Riva Steenkamp, ​​a paralegal and model at his Pretoria home, said she thought Steenkamp was a thief hiding in the bathroom, they caught him and accused him of killing someone.

At his trial next year, Pistorius was found guilty of manslaughter but not murder. He was sentenced to five years in prison for manslaughter and a three-year suspended sentence for reckless endangerment number 11 Kyle Maynard Kyle Maynard is an American speaker, author and mixed martial artist. Artistic wrestler is known for being the first quadriplegic to climb Mount Kilimanjaro without using prosthetics. He also started the No Excuses CrossFit gym Kyle Maynard was born with a condition called congenital amputation, which is very rare due to this condition. Kyle's arms end at these elbows and his legs end at his knees he has no hands he is barefoot when Kyle's parents first heard that he might have physical problems his nurse suggested they get an abortion Kyle's parents said never They would think about aborting Kyle's first year of life was the same as a normal child even though he looked different, but after Kyle turned one year old his life began to change greatly, he was not as fast as the Other children his age, he couldn't stand, walk or do anything with his hands at every meal.

He had to be fed. This continued for a few years until one day Kyle's father said that the family would no longer help feed Kyle. Kyle would have to figure out how to eat on his behalf. Kyle's father's reasoning was simple. He knew that someday his son. he would live alone and would need to know how to take care of himself number 12 Bethany Hamilton Bethany Hamilton has become a name that people think of when they want inspiration, this is because she has one of the most famous comeback stories of our time her work history hard Faith and Hope Has inspired people around the world when she was 13 Bethany had become a rising surf star when a 14-foot tiger shark ripped off her left arm.

This seemed to be the end of her dream career, but a month after the attack, Bethany returned to surfing and within two years she won her first national surfing title. Bethany's face had given her strengths, truths and hope and has been her backbone. She got to live her dream of surfing professionally when she was 17 years old. years and still competes in surf events today Bethany has been able to reach many people with her message of faith, her efforts to help others, and her overall spirit. Bethany's greatest joy is being a wife and mother as a professional surfer author and motivational speaker she continues to touch and inspire people around the world she has her own blog an online course and mentoring program for mothers and daughters called the Ohana Experience all of these things are meant to help young women be unstoppable in life and in their faith