Imagine being pregnant for 60 years!
By FDBrister
@FDBrister (115)
United States
3 responses
@Sporks19 (17)
• United States
16 Jan 09
Oh I think I watched a show about this on TV. They called it a "stone baby" because it was actually an ectopic pregnancy that formed in her abdomen or something. Yea that was crazy! I don't know what I would do be in shock, I don't imagine it is likely to happen now a days w/ all the technology they would be able to detect HcG in your blood and know something was up when your #'s didn't rise the way they should or more importantly nothing showed up in the uterous on the ultrasound! Def. a interesting story though
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@FDBrister (115)
• United States
17 Jan 09
Doctors knew the baby was there, so did the woman. At the time, the doctors wanted to charge her 100 pounds to remove the fetus (which was a lot of money back then). Unable to afford to have the fetus removed, the woman just walked around with it in her stomach for 60 years. She's lived that long with the fetus in there, NOW they're talking about removing it. I'd be scared to have it removed after all that time... she's lived to be 92 years old... who's to say it isn't BECAUSE the fetus has been there the whole time?
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@shadowking (34)
• India
16 Jan 09
This is the craziest thing i have ever seen.
How can anyone remain for such a long time with such a condition.And what was government was doing while all this was going on.
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@FDBrister (115)
• United States
17 Jan 09
This was in another country. The woman couldn't afford the operation to have the baby removed, so she just left it there. Her life remained permanently altered because of money. We all live years with conditions- diabetes, epilepsy, all kinds of diseases, why not pregnancy? (Though I have to say that I'm glad I didn't have to be pregnant for 60 years with my two kids.)
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@chantalgiardina (2523)
• United States
16 Jan 09
that is crazy i mean i understand that she didnt have the money but goodness why not go to another doctor? i could not have done it.
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@FDBrister (115)
• United States
17 Jan 09
It's possible that there were no other doctors. This took place in another (third-world) country 60 years ago. You have to be able to think back to what things were like 60 years ago. You do what you have to do to survive life; that what she did.
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