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©2009-2010 `marcyintellect
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This is approximately (at minimum) what my hands would look like if I never had surgery. It might have been a lot worse but there's no way to know. My growth plates have since closed.

Mano osteo-chondromatosis is the rare form of a genetic disease that causes cartilage to grow at an exponential rate inside of small joints and then ossify into bone tumours or "chondromas".

Also, for the record, it took me 5 hours to make those bones out of sculpey.

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:iconworman:
so fuck the Mano osteo-chondromatosis

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woah, that's eye opening. I didn't know such a disease existed.

is this hereditary or how does this happen?

fascinating, for probably anyone that uses a computer a LOT, it's really horrible.

glad you had the surgery, was it painful?

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Well, I had surgery when I was 1.5 (when they didn't know what it was, so the doctors in new jersey wanted to break bones and put them back together... luckily we found a surgeon in chicago that knew what was going on. I'm one of the only people left in America with this form of the disease)....
and when I was 3 (had to relearn to walk, casts on both legs), 6, 10, 14, 16...

It's only horrible now because I have really bad carpal tunnel and tendonitis. But I don't mean to complain - in a way this photo is my last complaint. I wonder if the bones aren't quite detailed enough though/the layer of skin on top is too opaque.

now I just sort of barely use my left hand and pray men who are into hand massages want to date or marry me. ha!!!

Thank you for the comment.

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This is a great image!

Love your hair, btw. :)

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thanks :)

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:iconroseline55:
your self portraits are always very compelling.

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