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rabenacohmalani:
Most people on tumblr won’t reblog this because it doesn’t “fit” their blog.
Well, this baby girl has a disease. It’s a cancer that is slowly eating up her body. Its called Necrotizing Fasciitis (Flesh-Eating Bacteria). She is currently under serious condition. This was put on tumblr to be reblogged for donations. Each reblog is equivalent to $1. The more reblogs, the more money goes for her treatment. Every 4 hours a child dies from cancer. I am praying for her.
What if this baby was your daughter/sister/niece .. etc. How would you feel?
If you don’t have a heart or a care in the world.. Keep scrolling.

Prayers won’t help this baby. Medicine will.

“Necrotizing fasciitis”
“Cancer”
that’s not how EITHER of those work, as disparate as they are in the medicine world to begin with
fuck, someone must’ve just been throwing darts at a word/definition chart when they wrote that.

LOL but guessing is fun! Also if the internet says so, it must be true amirite?

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Macronodular Cirrhosis- is a chronic degenerative disease caused in which normal liver cells are damaged and are then replaced by scar tissue, causing small rounded lumps. Thus, the structure of the liver and the blood vessels that nourish it are altered. The disease reduces the liver’s ability to manufacture proteins and process nutrients, hormones, medication, and poisons. Long-term alcoholism and chronic liver infections, are the leading causes of cirrhosis. Medications are prescribed in order to delay the progression and prevent or treat complications. Liver transplants can benefit individuals with cirrhosis. However, the new liver will eventually become diseased unless the underlying cause of cirrhosis is removed.

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Mesenteric Ischemia- is caused by decreased intestinal blood flow. Thus, your organs do not receive a sufficient amount of oxygen, causing them to function improperly. Certain medications are prescribed to dissolve the blood clots. Often, if medications do not succesfully treat the disorder, surgery is conducted in order to remove the plaque blocking the mesenteric artery. Mesenteric ischemia is a relatively rare disorder, usually occurring in individuals over the age of 60, and it has a high mortality rate.

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Necrotizing Fascilitis- a very rare disease caused by flesh-eating bacteria that can enter the skin through the smallest paths; once getting in, it never gets out. The bacteria then start its way and eats whatever it finds in its path. The skin looks rusty, and losing body parts is a possibility. Necrotizing fascilitis has a mortality rate of 73%.

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View of the brain after hemorrhaging.

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For nearly four decades, Sanju Bhagat carried the body of his own twin inside him. Doctors discovered Bhagat had one of the world’s most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu, an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. (ABC)

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One of two tumors removed from abdomen. Together the two tumors weighed approximately 140 pounds. Before discovering the tumors, doctors assumed that the patient was simply overweight.

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Russian surgeons said what they first believed was a tumor in a man’s lungs turned out to be a living, growing fir tree, according to reports in the Russian media. The doctors said they found a tree measuring nearly 2 inches long inside the lung tissues of 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin. Horticulturalists remain skeptical, however. Tricia Diggins of the Wellesley College Botanical Gardens in Boston told ABCNews.com that while it may be possible for such trees to grow without light, she doubted whether such an environment could yield an apparently normal, green plant. (ABC)

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