Flesh grows over womans ring on her hand

[cb911]

http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/179_04_180803/cat10045_fm.html

A 44-year-old woman was brought to hospital by police. Over a period of years she had isolated herself and her daughter from society, arousing the concern of neighbours. A scant history of “schizophrenia”, personality disorder and intellectual disability was obtained from distant relatives.


Examination revealed classic clinical features of profound hypothyroidism. In addition, a lump was found on the patient’s ring finger (Box 1, A). Her mental state necessitated admission, after a psychiatric consultation, as an involuntary patient.


Investigations confirmed the diagnosis of hypothyroidism and indicated anaemia due to iron deficiency (Box 2). An x-ray of the lump (Box 1, B) revealed a wedding ring totally encased in the soft tissue. The patient was started on thyroxine and antipsychotic medication and transferred to a psychiatric institution, with marginal improvement in her mental state. Her daughter was removed to the care of child welfare authorities. The wedding ring was surgically removed. Histopathological examination of the lump revealed a foreign body granuloma with chronic low-grade Staphylococcus aureus infection.

wow - never thought i'd see anything like this. i'm going to be scared whenever i look at a ring from now on. well, at least for the next few days.

 

[MongoTheGeek]

http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/179_04_180803/cat10045_fm.html

wow - never thought i'd see anything like this. i'm going to be scared whenever i look at a ring from now on. well, at least for the next few days.

Imagine something along the lines of this as body mods. Skin is highly stretchable if you do it slowly and carefully. She may have just been pulling her hand skin over the ring and eventually it just grew there.

 

[cb911]

yeah, some people into body modification might be tempted to do this (for some reason) but i think that's not what this woman was trying to achieve. and i think they discovered she had some sort of infection when they removed the ring...

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Weird that the ring is on the right hand.....

Very scary, actually - I wonder what she did to start the thing to grow around the ring...

D

 

[cslewis]

Oh, Barf! Why didn't she take the thing off? I would've noticed that lump on my finger beginning to form. (Gag)

 

[takao]

Weird that the ring is on the right hand.....

that depends where you live

Very scary, actually - I wonder what she did to start the thing to grow around the ring...

D

after seeing the pictures i completly lost any intention to eat something

urgh

 

[MacBandit]

that depends where you live


after seeing the pictures i completly lost any intention to eat something

urgh

I'm eating as I read this.

 

[jsw]

I can't wait until the woman-grown-into-the-couch crowd jumps in here.

This is just bizarre. I understand the hypothyroidism, I understand the mental illness issue. I just don't get how the skin would grow around the ring to such a bloated degree - I can only assume it's because of the infection.

 

[rueyeet]

She wouldn't have had to do anything with the ring herself to cause that; probably she gained weight from the hypothyroidism, and didn't get the ring off before it became too tight, cut into her skin, and became infected. Then the flesh probably sealed to itself over the ring while healing, leaving the ring embedded in her finger.

 

[mactastic]

So if I make a funny face, eventually it really WILL stay that way? Man, I tried like hell when I was a kid to make that work and it never did, much to my mom's consternation.

 

[MongoTheGeek]

So if I make a funny face, eventually it really WILL stay that way? Man, I tried like hell when I was a kid to make that work and it never did, much to my mom's consternation.

You lacked the needed patience. Ancient Mayans strapped boards to their foreheads to make a flat forehead. Women of a certain tribe in Africa stretch their necks with progressive increases in gold bands. These are changes to bone morphology. The women's neck bones actually elongate. Then there was chinese foot binding popular until the cultural revolution where the feet were artificially constrained.

This is to say nothing of things like the lip plates found in the Amazon where people stretch soft tissue.

There are whole new worlds of ways people can resculpt their bodies. Some new, some old.

 

[virividox]

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

[wdlove]

It probably originally started with a large cut followed by an infection. An infection causes swelling. So in the healing process, because of the position of the ring the skin grew over the ring.

There could also have been a swelling of the entire hand, that caused a cut. The human body is amazing in the way the healing process occurs.

 

[mactastic]

You lacked the needed patience.

And how much patience did you have at five?

Ancient Mayans strapped boards to their foreheads to make a flat forehead. Women of a certain tribe in Africa stretch their necks with progressive increases in gold bands. These are changes to bone morphology. The women's neck bones actually elongate. Then there was chinese foot binding popular until the cultural revolution where the feet were artificially constrained.

This is to say nothing of things like the lip plates found in the Amazon where people stretch soft tissue.

There are whole new worlds of ways people can resculpt their bodies. Some new, some old.

You don't say! I've never heard of such things, thank you so much for enlightening me...

BTW, that's sarcasm. As was my initial post.

 

[MrMacMan]

Ech, thats sick.

 

[Thomas Veil]

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

My sentiments exactly.

 

[MongoTheGeek]

And how much patience did you have at five?

Bit less than now. Attention span of a weasel on crack. Then again back then no one knew crack, so I guess it was a weasel on speed. But I wasn't the one who was trying to get their face stuck like that.

You don't say! I've never heard of such things, thank you so much for enlightening me...

BTW, that's sarcasm. As was my initial post.

Sorry don't always know the audiences knowledge base. I've gotten used to sarcastic condescension going unnoticed as normal conversation. I thought I was merely introducing novel facts not reciting common knowledge.

 

[LeeTom]

As the doctors at Wanaboo Hospital worked to remove the ring, the woman woke from her anesthesia-induced sleep and screamed out, "My Precious! My Precious!"

Lee Tom

 

[jsw]

Look at the side-view pic. Is that a sealed-over hole? Perhaps the finger has erupted in the past.

Why, cb911, why did you feel the need to post the pictures?

 

[Hemingray]

As the doctors at Wanaboo Hospital worked to remove the ring, the woman woke from her anesthesia-induced sleep and screamed out, "My Precious! My Precious!"

LOL!

Speaking on "resculpting bodies", my favorite is still Bonsai Kitten.

 

[stevehaslip]

this is just plain wrong on so many levels! i'm glad that they took away her daughter (at least until shes ok) but at why didn't she stop and think "my my this isn't normal?"??? its crazy! and really, really disturbing, just look at the size of her digit!

 

[wdlove]

Look at the side-view pic. Is that a sealed-over hole? Perhaps the finger has erupted in the past.

Why, cb911, why did you feel the need to post the pictures?

It could have been a fistula, a tube that allowed the infectious material to drain. That being the last area to heal with a dark permanent scab.

Her history of “schizophrenia”, personality disorder and intellectual disability would be the reason why she didn't seek help. Probably also paranoid.

 

[cb911]

well, the pictures are part of the story, right?

i could have put a 'medical content' warning on it, but this isn't quite up to the same standards as having a blood clot removed from your brain..

LOL! Bonsai Kitten!! anyone got a link to that?

 

[MacFan26]

Ironic this was posted, my mom's wedding ring has been stuck on her finger for a few years now. Just a couple weeks ago she got a lot of cold water and lotion and managed to get it off to have resized. I guess I'm glad she did it before something like that happened

Speaking on "resculpting bodies", my favorite is still Bonsai Kitten.

Wasn't the bonsai kitten thing actually being done? I remember all the emails/etc. about trying to stop it. That's extreme animal cruelty, I hope you guys weren't serious about liking it and wanting the links. Sorry if I'm overeacting.

 

[jsw]

Wasn't the bonsai kitten thing actually being done? I remember all the emails/etc. about trying to stop it. That's extreme animal cruelty, I hope you guys weren't serious about liking it and wanting the links. Sorry if I'm overeacting.

Hoax.