Story : The bride was beautiful

Story summary:

The photo set is of 21 year old Katie Kirkpatrick, a cancer sufferer, getting married. She is pictured getting chemotherapy, then putting on her earrings while her shoulder blades jut painfully out from her backless wedding dress. In a particularly poignant shot, she is shown resting her head on the back of a chair while the festivities go on.


Katie Kirkpatrick,held off cancer to celebrate the happiest day of her life. Katie had chased cancer, once only to have it return-to clog her lungs and grab hold of her heart. Breathing was difficult now, she had to use oxygen. The pain in her back was so intense it broke through the morphine that was supposed to act as a shield. Her organs were shutting down but it would not stop her from marrying Nick Godwin, 23, who was in love with Katie since 11th grade.


An oxygen tank accompanied Katie at her wedding, and she was wheeled, not walked down the aisle. Along with diamond earrings, she also wore an insert in her nose for oxygen. The caption accompanying this photo montage states that Katie died five days after her wedding, and reminds the reader not to live a complicated life.



This remarkable photo set was taken on January 11, 2005. Before her wedding, Katie had already suffered from organ failures and was dependent on morphine to make life bearable. She also had to endured hours of chemotherapy a day.



Her battle with cancer began in 2002 on Valentine's Day, when she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Katie was just a freshman at college then. She kept on studying, but suffered another setback in '03, when she was diagnosed not just with "an inoperable lung tumour", but one wrapped around her pulmonary artery. Katie could have given up then, but she didn't, opting to even take part in a cycling fundraiser for cancer patients the year after. Another year after that, she got married.



In a world where material items and tangible goals are all that matter, it is a struggle every day to remember that it is the intangible things in life that matter most. Take a moment each day to think of all the love you receive in your life - then give it back, just like Katie did.



Katie didn't lose her battle to cancer - she beat it by doing everything she wanted to, with all her heart.


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Katie Kirkpatrick, left, and Nick Godwin, wait for the nurse to come and start Katie's treatment at McLaren Regional Medical Center in Flint on the morning of January 12, 2005. Nick Godwin works night shift as a Lapeer County Sheriff's deputy and took Katie to the medical center right after a night's work, three days before their wedding. Katie is tired from not being able to sleep at night because of her pain and Nick had worked a night shift.



Katie Kirkpatrick, 21, holds some of her daily medication for several minutes before taking them as she waves in and out of sleep because of the morphine she takes while sitting in the livingroom of the familly home in Metamora on January 11, 2005. Katie has cancer of the lungs.



Katie is in a lot of pain in the days leading to her wedding taking morphine and numerous medications to help her. Niki Kirkpatrick,right, took a leave of abscence from work so she can take care of her daugther Katie who now needs constant assistance.




Nick Godwin, 23, left, takes a moment of rest while his bride Katie Kirkpatrick, right, gets an intravenous procedure to reduce the amount of fluids her body is retaining at McLaren Regional Medical Center in Flint on January 12, 2005. Nick Godwin who works night shift as a Lapeer County Sheriff's deputy took Katie to the medical center after a night's work, three days before their wedding.



Katie Kirkpatrick walks past a photograph of herself when she was homecoming queen at Lapeer East High School where she also was a co-valedictorian. the photograph sits on a table in her familly's home livingroom in Metamora on January 11, 2005.



Katie Kirkpatrick, puts on some hearings a few minutes before walking down the aisle to marry Nick Godwin, who she had known since 11th grade, at Church of Christ in Hazel Park on Saturday January 15, 2005.



Katie Kirkpatrick and Nick Godwin,, cuddle up for a moment while waiting for the wedding photographer to get ready after getting married



Dave Kirkpatrick gives the thumbs up to his new son in law while admiring the couple with his wife Niki Kirkpatrick, right, after Nick and Katie got married at Church of Christ in Hazel Park



Katie Kirkpatrick Godwin, right, gets serenaded by her new husband Nick Godwin, and his best men during the wedding party on the dance floor



Katie Kirkpatrick Godwin, center, rests for a few moments during her wedding party. Katie was exhausted. Her face looked as white as her gown.

Five days later, Katie died. She did not let sickness stop her from living, take away the hope or faith that made her believe she had a future. She had a lovely wedding and she had love and she gave love and love doesn' t die. And that is how Katie beat cancer.

World Biggest Mexican

950 Lbs !! Super Obese Kid !!

From BIG to small

Armless Supermom

One BIG baby

Armless Guitar - Toe Jam

Dude with no arms plays a mean guitar and sings too! Check it out. He's awesome!

Girl With Crystals In Her Eyes

12 year old girl spits razor sharp crystals out of her eyes! ANd they don't hurt her eyes! REALLY!

Bowler With NO Arms

WOW! What an inspiration! Dude out on the lanes bowling (better than me) .... and he's got NO ARMS! Awesome!

Tumor-girl (Vietnam)

Fifteen-year-old Lai Thi Dao waves to members of the media as she leaves Jackson Memorial Medical Center after a news conference Tuesday, April 22, 2008, in Miami.

The Vietnamese girl has a 16-pound facial tumor and is in Miami awaiting surgery that will restore her ability to eat and speak. Doctors say the tumor threatens to suffocate Lai. They will remove the tumor in a 10-hour surgery on April 29 in US



These handout photos are courtesy of the University of Miami School of Medicine, in Miami, Florida shows an extremely large tumor that has severely deformed the face of fifteen year-old Lai Thi Dao from Vietnam. US doctors are due to remove from the Vietnamese girl a 16-pound (seven-kilo) tumor thought to be one of the largest of its kind on record.

Dr. Robert Marx, left, points to a CT scan of fifteen-year-old Lai Thi Dao during a news conference at the Jackson Memorial Medical Center Tuesday, April 22, 2008 in Miami.

The Vietnamese girl, center, has a 16-pound facial tumor and is in Miami awaiting surgery that will restore her ability to eat and speak. Doctors say the tumor threatens to suffocate Lai. They will remove the tumor in a 10-hour surgery on April 29. Behind Dao is her mother Tuyet Van, and sponsor Geoffrey Le of Fort Worth, Tx., and holding the scan is Dr. Jesus Gomez

BIG little girl - Jessica

Her name is Jessica

She is 5 years old but weight 200 pounds

Now...she is 7 years old and her weight is 400 pound ~~

This is The worlds biggest 7 year old. The poor girl cant walk and has to shuffle along like a Walruss and can take 35 minutes to climb up onto a chair. Things started to go bad due in part by her mother feeding her giant pizzas which would definitely feed at least 8 adults andf coming fom Germant, the land of chocolate doesn't help. Her brother is famous for his role in the new Charly and the Chocolate Factory Film. Luckily she did not succumb to the same fate as her brother and has now slimmed down and won the Miss Bavarian Beauty Teen Princess Pageant and is set to live happily ever after.

No arm swimmer take part in contest

He come in 1st !!

Smallest Girl in India

Boy stuck inside claw machine (Australia)

5 Year Old Blind Pianist Performs in Singapore

This little girl is from korea. She is only five years old and blind, but Yoo Ye-Eun's little hands find the right notes onthe black and white keys of her piano, despite the fact that she's never actually seen the instrument.


Yoo was born without any eyeballs and was abandoned by her birth parents.She is raised by her adoptive parents, Yoo Jang-joo and Park Jeong-soon.At the age of three, Yoo surprised her adoptive parents by suddenly playing a Korean song, which her mother loved to sing, on an old piano given to them by a neighbour.Yoo immediately fell in love with the instrument and continued to play,improving day by day.


[Park Jeong-soon, Adoptive Mother]:"When she was three years old, she had played a part of a song from church. And some other easy children's songs."Her father began playing her different pieces of music with the computer and amazingly she could play every tune after hearing it just once.


[Park Jeong-soon, Adoptive Mother]:"I got goose bumps, because she never had any music lessons from anybody. She is blind and was just a three-year-old baby. How could she find the keyboard and play the melody? So I got goose bumps."She amazed everyone with her piano skills in a contest on a popular Korean television show, and took home the cash prize of three million won or $3,900 U.S. dollars.Her act on the Youtube website attracted more than two million hits.With her newfound fame, Yoo now gets invited to perform at many shows and events, including a recent banquet in Singapore, attended by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.


Yoo performed Chopin's Fantasy in C# Minor, drawing huge applause from the audience.When asked what she wanted to be when she grows up,she replies that she wants to be a pianist, but not just any pianist...a "great pianist".Her mother says the future is unclear because of Yoo's handicap, but that she and her husband will support Yoo in whatever her dreams may be.

Lakshmi Tatma 8 limbed Indian girl

More Detail : http://8limbedw1.blogspot.com/

Lakshmi TatmaFormerly the "8 limbed girl" these photos show her pre and post operation. Her chief surgeon is cautious, but within a week she could be held by her parents and has movement in her feet. Her main risk now is infection and the need for further surgery to repair her feet and adjust some internal organs (she retained one kidney from the parasitic twin.)



Now normal Lakshmi Tatma draws crowds

Lakshmi Tatma, born with a parasitic twin that was removed after a highly publicised operation in Bangalore, has returned to a rousing welcome to her village in Bihar. Villagers can’t believe that Lakshmi, 2, is the same child who was born with four arms and four legs. The parasitic twin was removed after a complicated surgery at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore in November.
Hundreds of people, including a large number of women and children, have been thronging Rampur Kodarkatti village in Araria district, about 350 km from here, for last few days to get a glimpse of Lakshmi.

“Her return to the village as a normal child is drawing huge crowds. From early morning to late evening, everyone is eager to see her,” said Santosh Tamta, her uncle.
Santosh said people were eager to touch, kiss and hug Lakshmi after she along with her parents returned to her village last Thursday. Now Lakshmi can easily walk, stand and crawl, unlike six months ago when she was a toddler with eight limbs.


Lakshmi along with her parents will spend nearly a month in the village before returning to an NGO home in Rajasthan, which adopted her. “We will go back to Rajasthan by the end of March because Lakshmi would be admitted in Bangalore hospital again for three remaining operations,” her father, Sambhu, told IANS on telephone.
Villagers had been eagerly waiting for Lakshmi’s return after she was released from the hospital in December.


Her family and relatives tonsured Lakshmi and offered special prayers and rituals on the banks of the river Ganges as a gesture of gratitude to god, soon after she returned to the village as a normal child.

“Lakshmi’s mother Poonam Tamta had prayed to god that Lakshmi would be tonsured, if she became a normal child after the complicated operation,” said Rukmani Devi, grandmother of Laksmi.


Some villagers believe Lakshmi has divine powers while others believe she is the incarnation of a Hindu goddess.

Lakshmi’s idol has been installed in the village and many villagers, particularly women, have started worshipping her. Her relatives are planning to build a temple dedicated to her. In fact, Lakshmi was named after the Hindu goddess of wealth who is traditionally depicted with four arms.


Soon after she was released from the Bangalore hospital, Lakshmi was brought to Manaklao village in Rajasthan along with her family by a Jodhpur-based NGO, the Sucheta Kriplani Shiksha Niketan (SKSN), which has offered to provide free board and education to the girl. The organisation has also given a separate accommodation to her family.

Source : http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/now-normal-lakshmi-tatma-draws-crowds_10023322.html

Tree Man

He looks like one of those walking trees from lord of the rings ...oh mine !!

Elephant Man

31 old Huang suffers on neurofibrome from the birth. He was the object of cruel jokes because of the his appearance, by the whole life and social ostracism. He is known in the China and in the world as " elephant man". Doctors from the Chinese centre announced that they were able to remove already weighing above 15 kg growth on the face Huang. They have to do this as the most quickly, because the disease begins to deform the spine

Twin head baby

Genetic errors ...so pitiiful

Miracle man walks again

See a sort of inexplicable enthusiasm, firm confidence and indomitable tenacity in his face?!! Marvelous?!! !!!!!!!!

For people who make themselves in distress because of futile, frivolous and trivial reasons? Lets see him and l earn myriad lessons from him?!!

Miracle man walks again

Monday, July 9, 2007.
He survived against all the odds; now Peng Shulin has astounded doctors by learning to walk again. When his body was cut in two by a lorry in 1995, it was little short of a medical miracle that he lived.



It took a team of more than 20 doctors to save his life. Skin was grafted from his head to seal his torso? but the legless Mr Peng was left only 78cm (2ft 6in) tall.

Bedridden for years, doctors in China had little hope that he would ever be able to live anything like a normal life again.

But recently, he began exercising his arms, building up the strength to carry out everyday chores such as washing his face and brushing his teeth.

Doctors at the China Rehabilitation Research Centre in Beijing found out about Mr Peng's plight late last year and devised a plan to get him up walking again. They came up with an ingenious way to allow him to walk on his own, creating a sophisticated egg cup-like casing to hold his body with two bionic legs attached to it.

He has been taking his first steps around the centre with the aid of his specially adapted legs and a resized walking frame. Mr Peng, who has to learn how to walk again, is said to be delighted with the device.

What a Self confidence !!!! Great