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  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • Bhiwandi – INDIA. EXCLUSIVE<br />
The 3 Wishes : A Father’s Race against Time <br />
<br />
Nihal Bitla is a 14 years old boy, with bright eyes & child like innocence,  but has the body of an elderly man, with wrinkled leathery skin, a bald enlarged head, and withered limbs.<br />
<br />
Nihal, who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford  Progeria Syndrome, which causes him to age eight times faster than normal.<br />
<br />
<br />
“I ignore it now if people stare at me because of the way I look,” says Nihal, who stopped going to school five years ago because he was being teased about his condition by his classmates.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nihal doesn’t like the 2009 Bollywood movie ‘Paa’ so much. While he was always the odd boy out because of the way he looked, school life became all the more difficult for him after ‘Paa’ released. The movie had Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan play a progeria patient, named Auro. Nihal’s fellow students began teasing & calling him Auro. Tired of his friends’ barbs, he  stopped going to school . The last straw was when a fellow student told him he too would suffer a heart attack like Auro did in the movie. Repeated attempts by teachers, who felt he was a bright student, to get him back to class failed. Some of his friends tried too, but Nihal didn’t budge. Now he stays home on most days, rarely ever stepping out of the house and spends all his time either painting or surfing the net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
His father, Srinivas, who owns a small mobile phone repair shop, says that Nihal was the first person in India to be discovered with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, the most severe form of progeria.<br />
<br />
Most children with the disorder only live until the age of 14, with heart attacks and strokes being the common causes of death.<br />
<br />
<br />
Progeria is believed to have inspired the story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was the basis for a film starring Brad Pitt, about a character born as an elderly
    Exclusivepix_14_Year_old_with_body_o...jpg
  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JUNE 20: (CHINA OUT) <br />
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Baby boy born with his heart outside his chest lies on bed at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University on June 20, 2016 in Chongqing, China. 110-day-old boy suffered from Pentalogy of Cantrel, a rare syndrome, with his heart outside chest, atretorrhinia in right and old fracture on right clavicle. He would receive operations at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. <br />
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  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JUNE 20: (CHINA OUT) <br />
<br />
A medic shows the X-ray plate of a boy born with his heart outside his chest on June 20, 2016 in Chongqing, China. 110-day-old boy suffered from Pentalogy of Cantrel, a rare syndrome, with his heart outside chest, atretorrhinia in right and old fracture on right clavicle. He would receive operations at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. <br />
©Exclusivepix Media
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  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JUNE 20: (CHINA OUT) <br />
<br />
Baby boy born with his heart outside his chest lies on bed at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University on June 20, 2016 in Chongqing, China. 110-day-old boy suffered from Pentalogy of Cantrel, a rare syndrome, with his heart outside chest, atretorrhinia in right and old fracture on right clavicle. He would receive operations at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. <br />
©Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Boys_Heart_Outside_Chest 01.jpg
  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JUNE 20: (CHINA OUT) <br />
<br />
Baby boy born with his heart outside his chest lies on bed at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University on June 20, 2016 in Chongqing, China. 110-day-old boy suffered from Pentalogy of Cantrel, a rare syndrome, with his heart outside chest, atretorrhinia in right and old fracture on right clavicle. He would receive operations at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. <br />
©Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Boys_Heart_Outside_Chest 02.jpg
  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JUNE 20: (CHINA OUT) <br />
<br />
Baby boy born with his heart outside his chest lies on bed at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University on June 20, 2016 in Chongqing, China. 110-day-old boy suffered from Pentalogy of Cantrel, a rare syndrome, with his heart outside chest, atretorrhinia in right and old fracture on right clavicle. He would receive operations at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. <br />
©Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Boys_Heart_Outside_Chest 06.jpg
  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JUNE 20: (CHINA OUT) <br />
<br />
Baby boy born with his heart outside his chest lies on bed at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University on June 20, 2016 in Chongqing, China. 110-day-old boy suffered from Pentalogy of Cantrel, a rare syndrome, with his heart outside chest, atretorrhinia in right and old fracture on right clavicle. He would receive operations at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. <br />
©Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Boys_Heart_Outside_Chest 07.jpg
  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JUNE 20: (CHINA OUT) <br />
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A medic shows the X-ray plate of a boy born with his heart outside his chest on June 20, 2016 in Chongqing, China. 110-day-old boy suffered from Pentalogy of Cantrel, a rare syndrome, with his heart outside chest, atretorrhinia in right and old fracture on right clavicle. He would receive operations at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. <br />
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  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JUNE 20: (CHINA OUT) <br />
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Baby boy born with his heart outside his chest lies on bed at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University on June 20, 2016 in Chongqing, China. 110-day-old boy suffered from Pentalogy of Cantrel, a rare syndrome, with his heart outside chest, atretorrhinia in right and old fracture on right clavicle. He would receive operations at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University.<br />
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  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JUNE 20: (CHINA OUT) <br />
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Baby boy born with his heart outside his chest lies on bed at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University on June 20, 2016 in Chongqing, China. 110-day-old boy suffered from Pentalogy of Cantrel, a rare syndrome, with his heart outside chest, atretorrhinia in right and old fracture on right clavicle. He would receive operations at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. <br />
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  • CHONGQING, CHINA - JUNE 20: (CHINA OUT) <br />
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Baby boy born with his heart outside his chest lies on bed at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University on June 20, 2016 in Chongqing, China. 110-day-old boy suffered from Pentalogy of Cantrel, a rare syndrome, with his heart outside chest, atretorrhinia in right and old fracture on right clavicle. He would receive operations at Children\'s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. <br />
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  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
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The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
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  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
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The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man04.jpg
  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
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The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man03.jpg
  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
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The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man05.jpg
  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
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The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man09.jpg
  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
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The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man07.jpg
  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
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The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man10.jpg
  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
<br />
The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man12.jpg
  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
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The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man02.jpg
  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
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The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man08.jpg
  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
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The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man06.jpg
  • Jan. 30, 2016 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - DHAKA, BANGLADESH - <br />
<br />
The man who's turning into a TREE: Bangladeshi suffers rare condition that causes tree-like 'roots' to grow from his hands and feet <br />
<br />
A Bangladeshi man dubbed as the tree-man because of wart-like lesions growing from his hands and feet has been admitted to hospital. <br />
Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been suffering from a disease known as Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis - a rare and inherited skin disorder - for the past seven years. <br />
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) will now decide on his treatment after forming a medical board of experts.<br />
<br />
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of the DMCH, made the announcement today. <br />
On duty doctors visited Mr Bajandar at the burn unit, where he had been admitted today. <br />
According to the dailystar.net, the ricksaw-van puller was previously taken to the Gazi Medical College Hospital in Khulna. <br />
According to local reports, the original tree-man Dede Koswara, of Indonesia, died today. Tribunnnews.com reported that it wasn't the disease to cause his death. <br />
In 2008 the Discovery Channel told the story Mr Koswara. In the programme, he returned home from hospital after having six kilo warts surgically removed from his body. <br />
An American doctor had previously said the warts were the result of severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection and doctors thought his type was the worst in the world. <br />
The father-of-two first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.<br />
He was later sacked from his job and shunned by neighbours when the branch-like growths covered much of his body and stopped him from working. <br />
At the time it was reported that he would need at least two operations every year. <br />
Previously, Mr Koswara was forced to take part in a circus act in Bandung in order to make ends meet. <br />
But once his case was publicised donations from the public began to flood in for his treatment. <br />
    Exclusivepix_Tree_Man11.jpg
  • The girl who could come back from the dead: Toddler who died from a brain tumour is FROZEN by parents who hope she can one day be revived by medical advances<br />
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A two-year-old girl who died from a brain tumour has been frozen - in the hope she will one day be revived by advances in science.<br />
Matheryn Naovaratpong, from Thailand, is thought to be the youngest person ever cryogenically preserved. <br />
The toddler was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer last April after she failed to wake up one morning, Motherboard's Brian Merchant reports<br />
After being admitted to a Bangkok hospital, tests revealed she had a 11cm tumour in the left side of her brain. <br />
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Doctors diagnosed her with ependymoblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that afflicts the very young.<br />
The outlook was bleak from the start - the disease has a five-year survival rate of 30 per cent.<br />
To make matters worse, Matheryn - known to her family as Einz - had fallen into a coma. <br />
After a months of intensive treatment, including 12 rounds of brain surgery, 20 chemotherapy treatments, and 20 radiation therapy sessions, it became clear there was little more doctors could do.<br />
She died on January 8th this year after her parents switched off her life support machine.<br />
By the time she passed away, she had lost 80 per cent of the left side of her brain - essentially paralysing the right side of her body. <br />
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But determined for some good to come from her death, her family have had her body cryogenically preserved - by one of the biggest  providers of this service in the world.<br />
Matheryn is currently at the Arizona-based Alcor, her brain and body frozen separately at 196C.<br />
Her family's main - although many would argue, far fetched - hope is that one day, science will have progressed enough to restore life to her.<br />
Alternatively, her parents want the cells from her brain and other parts of her body to be saved, so the disease that killed her can be studied in the future.<br />
Aside from the huge number of 'what ifs', there is the co
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  • The girl who could come back from the dead: Toddler who died from a brain tumour is FROZEN by parents who hope she can one day be revived by medical advances<br />
<br />
A two-year-old girl who died from a brain tumour has been frozen - in the hope she will one day be revived by advances in science.<br />
Matheryn Naovaratpong, from Thailand, is thought to be the youngest person ever cryogenically preserved. <br />
The toddler was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer last April after she failed to wake up one morning, Motherboard's Brian Merchant reports<br />
After being admitted to a Bangkok hospital, tests revealed she had a 11cm tumour in the left side of her brain. <br />
<br />
Doctors diagnosed her with ependymoblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that afflicts the very young.<br />
The outlook was bleak from the start - the disease has a five-year survival rate of 30 per cent.<br />
To make matters worse, Matheryn - known to her family as Einz - had fallen into a coma. <br />
After a months of intensive treatment, including 12 rounds of brain surgery, 20 chemotherapy treatments, and 20 radiation therapy sessions, it became clear there was little more doctors could do.<br />
She died on January 8th this year after her parents switched off her life support machine.<br />
By the time she passed away, she had lost 80 per cent of the left side of her brain - essentially paralysing the right side of her body. <br />
<br />
But determined for some good to come from her death, her family have had her body cryogenically preserved - by one of the biggest  providers of this service in the world.<br />
Matheryn is currently at the Arizona-based Alcor, her brain and body frozen separately at 196C.<br />
Her family's main - although many would argue, far fetched - hope is that one day, science will have progressed enough to restore life to her.<br />
Alternatively, her parents want the cells from her brain and other parts of her body to be saved, so the disease that killed her can be studied in the future.<br />
Aside from the huge number of 'what ifs', there is the co
    Exclusivepix_FROZEN_Baby3.jpg
  • The girl who could come back from the dead: Toddler who died from a brain tumour is FROZEN by parents who hope she can one day be revived by medical advances<br />
<br />
A two-year-old girl who died from a brain tumour has been frozen - in the hope she will one day be revived by advances in science.<br />
Matheryn Naovaratpong, from Thailand, is thought to be the youngest person ever cryogenically preserved. <br />
The toddler was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer last April after she failed to wake up one morning, Motherboard's Brian Merchant reports<br />
After being admitted to a Bangkok hospital, tests revealed she had a 11cm tumour in the left side of her brain. <br />
<br />
Doctors diagnosed her with ependymoblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that afflicts the very young.<br />
The outlook was bleak from the start - the disease has a five-year survival rate of 30 per cent.<br />
To make matters worse, Matheryn - known to her family as Einz - had fallen into a coma. <br />
After a months of intensive treatment, including 12 rounds of brain surgery, 20 chemotherapy treatments, and 20 radiation therapy sessions, it became clear there was little more doctors could do.<br />
She died on January 8th this year after her parents switched off her life support machine.<br />
By the time she passed away, she had lost 80 per cent of the left side of her brain - essentially paralysing the right side of her body. <br />
<br />
But determined for some good to come from her death, her family have had her body cryogenically preserved - by one of the biggest  providers of this service in the world.<br />
Matheryn is currently at the Arizona-based Alcor, her brain and body frozen separately at 196C.<br />
Her family's main - although many would argue, far fetched - hope is that one day, science will have progressed enough to restore life to her.<br />
Alternatively, her parents want the cells from her brain and other parts of her body to be saved, so the disease that killed her can be studied in the future.<br />
Aside from the huge number of 'what ifs', there is the co
    Exclusivepix_FROZEN_Baby1.jpg
  • Miracle baby born with heart OUTSIDE of her chest goes home with help of a pink shield to keep it in place<br />
<br />
A baby girl who was born with her heart beating outside of her body has gone home today, after she was given a pink protective shell to protect her vital organ.<br />
Audrina Cardenas was born in October with a rare congenital disease called ectopia cordis, where her heart formed outside the chest. <br />
The disease affects only one in eight million and nine out of 10 sufferers are stillborn or die within three days.<br />
But on Wednesday, the three-and-a-half-month-old defied the odds when she was discharged from Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and taken home by her mother Ashley.<br />
The happy youngster left the hospital with a pink external heart shield that she will wear moving forward to protect her heart as she grows. In a few years she will have surgery to place a more permanent protective shield inside her chest wall. <br />
It is a relief for Audrina's mother who has had sleepless nights every since she found out about her daughter’s life-threatening condition at a routine check-up when she was 16 weeks pregnant. <br />
Ms Cardenas was given three difficult options – abort the baby, carry her to term knowing she would die, or have doctors to construct a hole in her baby’s chest shortly after birth in an attempt to make room for the heart.<br />
She said: 'After my doctors explained just how sick my baby was and what options I had, it didn't matter how scared I was, I knew I had to do anything possible to save my daughter's life.'<br />
She was evaluated by Texas Children's Fetal Center a few weeks before she was scheduled for delivery. They gave her an ultrasound, foetal heart scan and foetal MRI and found that a third of the baby's heart was outside her body.<br />
On October 15, Ms Cardenas gave birth via caesarian section the next day her daughter was whisked away for heart surgery. <br />
Dr Larry Hollier, chief of plastic surgery at the hospital, said: 'Once the cardiac surgeons were finis
    Exclusivepix_Heart_Born_Outside4.jpg
  • Miracle baby born with heart OUTSIDE of her chest goes home with help of a pink shield to keep it in place<br />
<br />
A baby girl who was born with her heart beating outside of her body has gone home today, after she was given a pink protective shell to protect her vital organ.<br />
Audrina Cardenas was born in October with a rare congenital disease called ectopia cordis, where her heart formed outside the chest. <br />
The disease affects only one in eight million and nine out of 10 sufferers are stillborn or die within three days.<br />
But on Wednesday, the three-and-a-half-month-old defied the odds when she was discharged from Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and taken home by her mother Ashley.<br />
The happy youngster left the hospital with a pink external heart shield that she will wear moving forward to protect her heart as she grows. In a few years she will have surgery to place a more permanent protective shield inside her chest wall. <br />
It is a relief for Audrina's mother who has had sleepless nights every since she found out about her daughter’s life-threatening condition at a routine check-up when she was 16 weeks pregnant. <br />
Ms Cardenas was given three difficult options – abort the baby, carry her to term knowing she would die, or have doctors to construct a hole in her baby’s chest shortly after birth in an attempt to make room for the heart.<br />
She said: 'After my doctors explained just how sick my baby was and what options I had, it didn't matter how scared I was, I knew I had to do anything possible to save my daughter's life.'<br />
She was evaluated by Texas Children's Fetal Center a few weeks before she was scheduled for delivery. They gave her an ultrasound, foetal heart scan and foetal MRI and found that a third of the baby's heart was outside her body.<br />
On October 15, Ms Cardenas gave birth via caesarian section the next day her daughter was whisked away for heart surgery. <br />
Dr Larry Hollier, chief of plastic surgery at the hospital, said: 'Once the cardiac surgeons were finis
    Exclusivepix_Heart_Born_Outside3.jpg
  • Miracle baby born with heart OUTSIDE of her chest goes home with help of a pink shield to keep it in place<br />
<br />
A baby girl who was born with her heart beating outside of her body has gone home today, after she was given a pink protective shell to protect her vital organ.<br />
Audrina Cardenas was born in October with a rare congenital disease called ectopia cordis, where her heart formed outside the chest. <br />
The disease affects only one in eight million and nine out of 10 sufferers are stillborn or die within three days.<br />
But on Wednesday, the three-and-a-half-month-old defied the odds when she was discharged from Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and taken home by her mother Ashley.<br />
The happy youngster left the hospital with a pink external heart shield that she will wear moving forward to protect her heart as she grows. In a few years she will have surgery to place a more permanent protective shield inside her chest wall. <br />
It is a relief for Audrina's mother who has had sleepless nights every since she found out about her daughter’s life-threatening condition at a routine check-up when she was 16 weeks pregnant. <br />
Ms Cardenas was given three difficult options – abort the baby, carry her to term knowing she would die, or have doctors to construct a hole in her baby’s chest shortly after birth in an attempt to make room for the heart.<br />
She said: 'After my doctors explained just how sick my baby was and what options I had, it didn't matter how scared I was, I knew I had to do anything possible to save my daughter's life.'<br />
She was evaluated by Texas Children's Fetal Center a few weeks before she was scheduled for delivery. They gave her an ultrasound, foetal heart scan and foetal MRI and found that a third of the baby's heart was outside her body.<br />
On October 15, Ms Cardenas gave birth via caesarian section the next day her daughter was whisked away for heart surgery. <br />
Dr Larry Hollier, chief of plastic surgery at the hospital, said: 'Once the cardiac surgeons were finis
    Exclusivepix_Heart_Born_Outside2.jpg
  • The girl who could come back from the dead: Toddler who died from a brain tumour is FROZEN by parents who hope she can one day be revived by medical advances<br />
<br />
A two-year-old girl who died from a brain tumour has been frozen - in the hope she will one day be revived by advances in science.<br />
Matheryn Naovaratpong, from Thailand, is thought to be the youngest person ever cryogenically preserved. <br />
The toddler was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer last April after she failed to wake up one morning, Motherboard's Brian Merchant reports<br />
After being admitted to a Bangkok hospital, tests revealed she had a 11cm tumour in the left side of her brain. <br />
<br />
Doctors diagnosed her with ependymoblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that afflicts the very young.<br />
The outlook was bleak from the start - the disease has a five-year survival rate of 30 per cent.<br />
To make matters worse, Matheryn - known to her family as Einz - had fallen into a coma. <br />
After a months of intensive treatment, including 12 rounds of brain surgery, 20 chemotherapy treatments, and 20 radiation therapy sessions, it became clear there was little more doctors could do.<br />
She died on January 8th this year after her parents switched off her life support machine.<br />
By the time she passed away, she had lost 80 per cent of the left side of her brain - essentially paralysing the right side of her body. <br />
<br />
But determined for some good to come from her death, her family have had her body cryogenically preserved - by one of the biggest  providers of this service in the world.<br />
Matheryn is currently at the Arizona-based Alcor, her brain and body frozen separately at 196C.<br />
Her family's main - although many would argue, far fetched - hope is that one day, science will have progressed enough to restore life to her.<br />
Alternatively, her parents want the cells from her brain and other parts of her body to be saved, so the disease that killed her can be studied in the future.<br />
Aside from the huge number of 'what ifs', there is the co
    Exclusivepix_FROZEN_Baby4.jpg
  • The girl who could come back from the dead: Toddler who died from a brain tumour is FROZEN by parents who hope she can one day be revived by medical advances<br />
<br />
A two-year-old girl who died from a brain tumour has been frozen - in the hope she will one day be revived by advances in science.<br />
Matheryn Naovaratpong, from Thailand, is thought to be the youngest person ever cryogenically preserved. <br />
The toddler was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer last April after she failed to wake up one morning, Motherboard's Brian Merchant reports<br />
After being admitted to a Bangkok hospital, tests revealed she had a 11cm tumour in the left side of her brain. <br />
<br />
Doctors diagnosed her with ependymoblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that afflicts the very young.<br />
The outlook was bleak from the start - the disease has a five-year survival rate of 30 per cent.<br />
To make matters worse, Matheryn - known to her family as Einz - had fallen into a coma. <br />
After a months of intensive treatment, including 12 rounds of brain surgery, 20 chemotherapy treatments, and 20 radiation therapy sessions, it became clear there was little more doctors could do.<br />
She died on January 8th this year after her parents switched off her life support machine.<br />
By the time she passed away, she had lost 80 per cent of the left side of her brain - essentially paralysing the right side of her body. <br />
<br />
But determined for some good to come from her death, her family have had her body cryogenically preserved - by one of the biggest  providers of this service in the world.<br />
Matheryn is currently at the Arizona-based Alcor, her brain and body frozen separately at 196C.<br />
Her family's main - although many would argue, far fetched - hope is that one day, science will have progressed enough to restore life to her.<br />
Alternatively, her parents want the cells from her brain and other parts of her body to be saved, so the disease that killed her can be studied in the future.<br />
Aside from the huge number of 'what ifs', there is the co
    Exclusivepix_FROZEN_Baby2.jpg
  • Miracle baby born with heart OUTSIDE of her chest goes home with help of a pink shield to keep it in place<br />
<br />
A baby girl who was born with her heart beating outside of her body has gone home today, after she was given a pink protective shell to protect her vital organ.<br />
Audrina Cardenas was born in October with a rare congenital disease called ectopia cordis, where her heart formed outside the chest. <br />
The disease affects only one in eight million and nine out of 10 sufferers are stillborn or die within three days.<br />
But on Wednesday, the three-and-a-half-month-old defied the odds when she was discharged from Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and taken home by her mother Ashley.<br />
The happy youngster left the hospital with a pink external heart shield that she will wear moving forward to protect her heart as she grows. In a few years she will have surgery to place a more permanent protective shield inside her chest wall. <br />
It is a relief for Audrina's mother who has had sleepless nights every since she found out about her daughter’s life-threatening condition at a routine check-up when she was 16 weeks pregnant. <br />
Ms Cardenas was given three difficult options – abort the baby, carry her to term knowing she would die, or have doctors to construct a hole in her baby’s chest shortly after birth in an attempt to make room for the heart.<br />
She said: 'After my doctors explained just how sick my baby was and what options I had, it didn't matter how scared I was, I knew I had to do anything possible to save my daughter's life.'<br />
She was evaluated by Texas Children's Fetal Center a few weeks before she was scheduled for delivery. They gave her an ultrasound, foetal heart scan and foetal MRI and found that a third of the baby's heart was outside her body.<br />
On October 15, Ms Cardenas gave birth via caesarian section the next day her daughter was whisked away for heart surgery. <br />
Dr Larry Hollier, chief of plastic surgery at the hospital, said: 'Once the cardiac surgeons were finis
    Exclusivepix_Heart_Born_Outside1.jpg
  • We feel the looks and stares': Father of little Jaxon born without most of his skull reveals the horror abuse he and his wife have received from trolls who say they should have had him aborted<br />
<br />
The father of an infant who has celebrated his first birthday despite missing most of his brain and skull has spoken out about the abuse he's received after the inspirational story was shared on social media.<br />
Brandon Buell's son Jaxon was given only days to live at birth because of a rare neural-tube condition called Anencephaly seen while he was developing in the womb.<br />
News of the child's miraculous survival was read by hundreds of thousands after his first birthday in August, though some said that Brandon and his wife Brittany were 'selfish' or should have aborted the child to avoid the pain he will suffer.<br />
<br />
Brandon responded to the criticism in a heartfelt Facebook post Saturday night, saying his wife and his decision to keep their son was 'our choice, and only our choice'.<br />
<br />
Brandon and Brittany, who are devout Christians, were told by doctors that Jaxon would probably not survive the pregnancy.<br />
Doctors gave them the option to abort at 23 weeks, though Brandon said 'no doctor could tell us exactly what was wrong or what to expect'. <br />
About one in 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with Anencephaly and usually die shortly after birth, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
The father said that he and Brittany asked if the child was suffering in the womb or if there were potential health risks to her during the delivery.<br />
<br />
He said that there would have been a 'different discussion' if the answers to those questions had been yes.<br />
'However, that wasn’t the case, and it was our choice, and only our choice. Jaxon was our baby, and we only had one shot to do everything we could for him,' he said.<br />
Brandon added that he and Brittany didn't want to 'play God'.<br />
The parents had a two-month scare of multiple seizures, and Jaxon was rushed to the emergen
    Exclusivepix_Baby_Born_Missing_his_s...jpg
  • We feel the looks and stares': Father of little Jaxon born without most of his skull reveals the horror abuse he and his wife have received from trolls who say they should have had him aborted<br />
<br />
The father of an infant who has celebrated his first birthday despite missing most of his brain and skull has spoken out about the abuse he's received after the inspirational story was shared on social media.<br />
Brandon Buell's son Jaxon was given only days to live at birth because of a rare neural-tube condition called Anencephaly seen while he was developing in the womb.<br />
News of the child's miraculous survival was read by hundreds of thousands after his first birthday in August, though some said that Brandon and his wife Brittany were 'selfish' or should have aborted the child to avoid the pain he will suffer.<br />
<br />
Brandon responded to the criticism in a heartfelt Facebook post Saturday night, saying his wife and his decision to keep their son was 'our choice, and only our choice'.<br />
<br />
Brandon and Brittany, who are devout Christians, were told by doctors that Jaxon would probably not survive the pregnancy.<br />
Doctors gave them the option to abort at 23 weeks, though Brandon said 'no doctor could tell us exactly what was wrong or what to expect'. <br />
About one in 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with Anencephaly and usually die shortly after birth, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
The father said that he and Brittany asked if the child was suffering in the womb or if there were potential health risks to her during the delivery.<br />
<br />
He said that there would have been a 'different discussion' if the answers to those questions had been yes.<br />
'However, that wasn’t the case, and it was our choice, and only our choice. Jaxon was our baby, and we only had one shot to do everything we could for him,' he said.<br />
Brandon added that he and Brittany didn't want to 'play God'.<br />
The parents had a two-month scare of multiple seizures, and Jaxon was rushed to the emergen
    Exclusivepix_Baby_Born_Missing_his_s...jpg
  • We feel the looks and stares': Father of little Jaxon born without most of his skull reveals the horror abuse he and his wife have received from trolls who say they should have had him aborted<br />
<br />
The father of an infant who has celebrated his first birthday despite missing most of his brain and skull has spoken out about the abuse he's received after the inspirational story was shared on social media.<br />
Brandon Buell's son Jaxon was given only days to live at birth because of a rare neural-tube condition called Anencephaly seen while he was developing in the womb.<br />
News of the child's miraculous survival was read by hundreds of thousands after his first birthday in August, though some said that Brandon and his wife Brittany were 'selfish' or should have aborted the child to avoid the pain he will suffer.<br />
<br />
Brandon responded to the criticism in a heartfelt Facebook post Saturday night, saying his wife and his decision to keep their son was 'our choice, and only our choice'.<br />
<br />
Brandon and Brittany, who are devout Christians, were told by doctors that Jaxon would probably not survive the pregnancy.<br />
Doctors gave them the option to abort at 23 weeks, though Brandon said 'no doctor could tell us exactly what was wrong or what to expect'. <br />
About one in 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with Anencephaly and usually die shortly after birth, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
The father said that he and Brittany asked if the child was suffering in the womb or if there were potential health risks to her during the delivery.<br />
<br />
He said that there would have been a 'different discussion' if the answers to those questions had been yes.<br />
'However, that wasn’t the case, and it was our choice, and only our choice. Jaxon was our baby, and we only had one shot to do everything we could for him,' he said.<br />
Brandon added that he and Brittany didn't want to 'play God'.<br />
The parents had a two-month scare of multiple seizures, and Jaxon was rushed to the emergen
    Exclusivepix_Baby_Born_Missing_his_s...jpg
  • We feel the looks and stares': Father of little Jaxon born without most of his skull reveals the horror abuse he and his wife have received from trolls who say they should have had him aborted<br />
<br />
The father of an infant who has celebrated his first birthday despite missing most of his brain and skull has spoken out about the abuse he's received after the inspirational story was shared on social media.<br />
Brandon Buell's son Jaxon was given only days to live at birth because of a rare neural-tube condition called Anencephaly seen while he was developing in the womb.<br />
News of the child's miraculous survival was read by hundreds of thousands after his first birthday in August, though some said that Brandon and his wife Brittany were 'selfish' or should have aborted the child to avoid the pain he will suffer.<br />
<br />
Brandon responded to the criticism in a heartfelt Facebook post Saturday night, saying his wife and his decision to keep their son was 'our choice, and only our choice'.<br />
<br />
Brandon and Brittany, who are devout Christians, were told by doctors that Jaxon would probably not survive the pregnancy.<br />
Doctors gave them the option to abort at 23 weeks, though Brandon said 'no doctor could tell us exactly what was wrong or what to expect'. <br />
About one in 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with Anencephaly and usually die shortly after birth, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
The father said that he and Brittany asked if the child was suffering in the womb or if there were potential health risks to her during the delivery.<br />
<br />
He said that there would have been a 'different discussion' if the answers to those questions had been yes.<br />
'However, that wasn’t the case, and it was our choice, and only our choice. Jaxon was our baby, and we only had one shot to do everything we could for him,' he said.<br />
Brandon added that he and Brittany didn't want to 'play God'.<br />
The parents had a two-month scare of multiple seizures, and Jaxon was rushed to the emergen
    Exclusivepix_Baby_Born_Missing_his_s...jpg
  • We feel the looks and stares': Father of little Jaxon born without most of his skull reveals the horror abuse he and his wife have received from trolls who say they should have had him aborted<br />
<br />
The father of an infant who has celebrated his first birthday despite missing most of his brain and skull has spoken out about the abuse he's received after the inspirational story was shared on social media.<br />
Brandon Buell's son Jaxon was given only days to live at birth because of a rare neural-tube condition called Anencephaly seen while he was developing in the womb.<br />
News of the child's miraculous survival was read by hundreds of thousands after his first birthday in August, though some said that Brandon and his wife Brittany were 'selfish' or should have aborted the child to avoid the pain he will suffer.<br />
<br />
Brandon responded to the criticism in a heartfelt Facebook post Saturday night, saying his wife and his decision to keep their son was 'our choice, and only our choice'.<br />
<br />
Brandon and Brittany, who are devout Christians, were told by doctors that Jaxon would probably not survive the pregnancy.<br />
Doctors gave them the option to abort at 23 weeks, though Brandon said 'no doctor could tell us exactly what was wrong or what to expect'. <br />
About one in 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with Anencephaly and usually die shortly after birth, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
The father said that he and Brittany asked if the child was suffering in the womb or if there were potential health risks to her during the delivery.<br />
<br />
He said that there would have been a 'different discussion' if the answers to those questions had been yes.<br />
'However, that wasn’t the case, and it was our choice, and only our choice. Jaxon was our baby, and we only had one shot to do everything we could for him,' he said.<br />
Brandon added that he and Brittany didn't want to 'play God'.<br />
The parents had a two-month scare of multiple seizures, and Jaxon was rushed to the emergen
    Exclusivepix_Baby_Born_Missing_his_s...jpg
  • We feel the looks and stares': Father of little Jaxon born without most of his skull reveals the horror abuse he and his wife have received from trolls who say they should have had him aborted<br />
<br />
The father of an infant who has celebrated his first birthday despite missing most of his brain and skull has spoken out about the abuse he's received after the inspirational story was shared on social media.<br />
Brandon Buell's son Jaxon was given only days to live at birth because of a rare neural-tube condition called Anencephaly seen while he was developing in the womb.<br />
News of the child's miraculous survival was read by hundreds of thousands after his first birthday in August, though some said that Brandon and his wife Brittany were 'selfish' or should have aborted the child to avoid the pain he will suffer.<br />
<br />
Brandon responded to the criticism in a heartfelt Facebook post Saturday night, saying his wife and his decision to keep their son was 'our choice, and only our choice'.<br />
<br />
Brandon and Brittany, who are devout Christians, were told by doctors that Jaxon would probably not survive the pregnancy.<br />
Doctors gave them the option to abort at 23 weeks, though Brandon said 'no doctor could tell us exactly what was wrong or what to expect'. <br />
About one in 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with Anencephaly and usually die shortly after birth, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
The father said that he and Brittany asked if the child was suffering in the womb or if there were potential health risks to her during the delivery.<br />
<br />
He said that there would have been a 'different discussion' if the answers to those questions had been yes.<br />
'However, that wasn’t the case, and it was our choice, and only our choice. Jaxon was our baby, and we only had one shot to do everything we could for him,' he said.<br />
Brandon added that he and Brittany didn't want to 'play God'.<br />
The parents had a two-month scare of multiple seizures, and Jaxon was rushed to the emergen
    Exclusivepix_Baby_Born_Missing_his_s...jpg
  • We feel the looks and stares': Father of little Jaxon born without most of his skull reveals the horror abuse he and his wife have received from trolls who say they should have had him aborted<br />
<br />
The father of an infant who has celebrated his first birthday despite missing most of his brain and skull has spoken out about the abuse he's received after the inspirational story was shared on social media.<br />
Brandon Buell's son Jaxon was given only days to live at birth because of a rare neural-tube condition called Anencephaly seen while he was developing in the womb.<br />
News of the child's miraculous survival was read by hundreds of thousands after his first birthday in August, though some said that Brandon and his wife Brittany were 'selfish' or should have aborted the child to avoid the pain he will suffer.<br />
<br />
Brandon responded to the criticism in a heartfelt Facebook post Saturday night, saying his wife and his decision to keep their son was 'our choice, and only our choice'.<br />
<br />
Brandon and Brittany, who are devout Christians, were told by doctors that Jaxon would probably not survive the pregnancy.<br />
Doctors gave them the option to abort at 23 weeks, though Brandon said 'no doctor could tell us exactly what was wrong or what to expect'. <br />
About one in 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with Anencephaly and usually die shortly after birth, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
The father said that he and Brittany asked if the child was suffering in the womb or if there were potential health risks to her during the delivery.<br />
<br />
He said that there would have been a 'different discussion' if the answers to those questions had been yes.<br />
'However, that wasn’t the case, and it was our choice, and only our choice. Jaxon was our baby, and we only had one shot to do everything we could for him,' he said.<br />
Brandon added that he and Brittany didn't want to 'play God'.<br />
The parents had a two-month scare of multiple seizures, and Jaxon was rushed to the emergen
    Exclusivepix_Baby_Born_Missing_his_s...jpg
  • We feel the looks and stares': Father of little Jaxon born without most of his skull reveals the horror abuse he and his wife have received from trolls who say they should have had him aborted<br />
<br />
The father of an infant who has celebrated his first birthday despite missing most of his brain and skull has spoken out about the abuse he's received after the inspirational story was shared on social media.<br />
Brandon Buell's son Jaxon was given only days to live at birth because of a rare neural-tube condition called Anencephaly seen while he was developing in the womb.<br />
News of the child's miraculous survival was read by hundreds of thousands after his first birthday in August, though some said that Brandon and his wife Brittany were 'selfish' or should have aborted the child to avoid the pain he will suffer.<br />
<br />
Brandon responded to the criticism in a heartfelt Facebook post Saturday night, saying his wife and his decision to keep their son was 'our choice, and only our choice'.<br />
<br />
Brandon and Brittany, who are devout Christians, were told by doctors that Jaxon would probably not survive the pregnancy.<br />
Doctors gave them the option to abort at 23 weeks, though Brandon said 'no doctor could tell us exactly what was wrong or what to expect'. <br />
About one in 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with Anencephaly and usually die shortly after birth, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
The father said that he and Brittany asked if the child was suffering in the womb or if there were potential health risks to her during the delivery.<br />
<br />
He said that there would have been a 'different discussion' if the answers to those questions had been yes.<br />
'However, that wasn’t the case, and it was our choice, and only our choice. Jaxon was our baby, and we only had one shot to do everything we could for him,' he said.<br />
Brandon added that he and Brittany didn't want to 'play God'.<br />
The parents had a two-month scare of multiple seizures, and Jaxon was rushed to the emergen
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  • We feel the looks and stares': Father of little Jaxon born without most of his skull reveals the horror abuse he and his wife have received from trolls who say they should have had him aborted<br />
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The father of an infant who has celebrated his first birthday despite missing most of his brain and skull has spoken out about the abuse he's received after the inspirational story was shared on social media.<br />
Brandon Buell's son Jaxon was given only days to live at birth because of a rare neural-tube condition called Anencephaly seen while he was developing in the womb.<br />
News of the child's miraculous survival was read by hundreds of thousands after his first birthday in August, though some said that Brandon and his wife Brittany were 'selfish' or should have aborted the child to avoid the pain he will suffer.<br />
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Brandon responded to the criticism in a heartfelt Facebook post Saturday night, saying his wife and his decision to keep their son was 'our choice, and only our choice'.<br />
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Brandon and Brittany, who are devout Christians, were told by doctors that Jaxon would probably not survive the pregnancy.<br />
Doctors gave them the option to abort at 23 weeks, though Brandon said 'no doctor could tell us exactly what was wrong or what to expect'. <br />
About one in 4,859 babies in the United States will be born with Anencephaly and usually die shortly after birth, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
The father said that he and Brittany asked if the child was suffering in the womb or if there were potential health risks to her during the delivery.<br />
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He said that there would have been a 'different discussion' if the answers to those questions had been yes.<br />
'However, that wasn’t the case, and it was our choice, and only our choice. Jaxon was our baby, and we only had one shot to do everything we could for him,' he said.<br />
Brandon added that he and Brittany didn't want to 'play God'.<br />
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Queen Letizia, Arrives to a meeting at the headquarters of the Spanish Federation of rare diseases (Feder), wearing a stylish red coat<br />
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Queen Letizia, Arrives to a meeting at the headquarters of the Spanish Federation of rare diseases (Feder), wearing a stylish red coat<br />
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Queen Letizia, Arrives to a meeting at the headquarters of the Spanish Federation of rare diseases (Feder), wearing a stylish red coat<br />
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Queen Letizia, Arrives to a meeting at the headquarters of the Spanish Federation of rare diseases (Feder), wearing a stylish red coat<br />
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