Posted on 07/26/2011 10:03:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A one-year-old boy in India has broken a world record after being born with 34 fingers and toes.
Akshat Saxena had seven fingers on each hand and ten toes on each foot, according to a spokesman for Guinness World Records.
The child, from Uttar Pradesh in northern India, has since had a series of surgeries to amputate the excess digits. Akshat was born last year without thumbs so doctors are working to reconstruct these out of the fingers they have removed.
His mother Amrita Saxena said: 'I was so happy to see my baby as it was our first child.
'But later, when I saw his fingers, I was shocked and surprised.'
The condition is known as polydactyly, a genetic disorder which can be inherited and gives rise to excess digits. Most commonly, the extra digits appear on the little finger side of the hand.
Mrs Saxena said it was a family friend who convinced them Akshat was extremely special.
She said: 'He read on the internet about the baby born in China with 31 fingers.
'Then he said that my boy has broken the record of having 34 fingers. At first, I was not convinced at all. It was hard to believe that my son has broken the record.
'But later, he along with my husband and my younger sister registered the data in the Internet.'
The record was previously held by a six-year-old boy in China who had 15 fingers and 16 toes.
The child, who his family refused to name, also had surgery to remove his extra digits. He now has ten fingers and ten toes following a six-and-a-half hour operation at a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning last March.
There next god, I’m sure.
Give him piano lessons.
Well, that just isn’t fair.
Social Justice demands that he be taxed 14 fingers and/or toes, and they be redistributed to those who who have fewer than the usual 20.
No Justice; no peace.
I see a Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto in this kid’s future
>>The child, who his family refused to name, also had surgery to remove his extra digits. He now has ten fingers and ten toes following a six-and-a-half hour operation at a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning last March.<<
Thank God they were able to correct this and give this kid a normal life.
That is so cool!!
I think he has set a record by being born at 1 year of age!
I knew a guy who had six fingers on each hand and and six toes on each foot (an extra pinky and little toe).
We called him “Six Fingers”.
Living life with no name isn’t exactly normal, lol.
Written English is devolving before my very eyes.
Except that I assume he keeps his Guinness Record... that grants pretty good bragging rights, regardless.
At least they took pictures. He won't remember much from being only one, but the pictures will be cool.
What took him so long to earn that record?
If left uncorrected, sufferers of this condition might develop some wicked guitar chords.
>>Living life with no name isn’t exactly normal, lol.
Written English is devolving before my very eyes.<<
Modern “journalism” whose supposed tool is language has fallen to the point where “intent” is more important than “content.”
I usually pick up on such inanities, but it is late and I am not at my bestest...
>>We called him “Six Fingers”.<<
Slow week in the ‘hood, eh?
That's ok, Ebonics will fill the void...........
What’s the saying, Don’t be so humble, you’re nothing special”?
A gifted mathematician..
You didn’t get out much did you?
When I saw this thread, I thought the boy’s name was “Asshat.”
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