Tree man 'who grew roots' may be cured

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 01/13/2008 | Matthew Moore

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An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A.

Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.

The welts spread across his body unchecked and soon he was left unable to carry out everyday household tasks.

Sacked from his job and deserted by his wife, Dede has been raising his two children - now in their late teens - in poverty, resigned to the fact that local doctors had no cure for his condition.

To make ends meet he even joined a local "freak show", parading in front of a paying audience alongside victims of other peculiar diseases.

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Video on the link.

Wow.

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Ping to potentially interested parties.

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previously posted on FR (somewhere).

[samtheman]

Poor guy. Here’s hoping he gets cured soon.

[martin_fierro]

From last November

[svcw]

Yet he smiles.

[martin_fierro]

" . . . "

[Dustbunny]

How sad. I pray they are able to help him.

[Fox_Mulder77]

disgusting

[Brilliant]

Egads.

I hope it’s just a Hollywood stunt made for Enquiring minds. Otherwise, I’m about to puke.

[green iguana]

The contrast between your comment and the one immediately prior is very illuminating.

[Fox_Mulder77]

“The contrast between your comment and the one immediately prior is very illuminating.”

yeah i thought the same thing.

[Pinkbell]

I pray they are able to help him too. I have never seen anything like it. It really looks like he has a tree root growing out of his hand.

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Tree Man 'Who Grew Roots' May Be Cured

[Mr. Mojo]

I’m rootin’ for ya, Dede.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Here’s hoping he sees a complete cure.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I hope the man has made a lot of improvement since last November.

[dfwgator]

So there’s hope for Algore.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Nothing like being compassionate.

[najida]

Tell ya a secret.

When you see a human with a horrible, horrible affliction....look at their smile or look into their eyes.

It shifts from being all about you to all about them.

Honestly, it works.

[rightinthemiddle]

A shrubbery!

[Nea Wood]

People like this make me feel ashamed for ever complaining about MY little problems.

[MinuteGal]

Great balsa fire!

It's too bad Indonesian doctors couldn't get to the root of this man's problem. However, he was barking up the wrong tree. American specialists willow knot disappoint him, yew know.

I pray fir his cure and I'm sure that it will be at a locust to him.

Acacia didn't know, American doctors are the best in the world. The surgery will be arborius, but we can expect him to be out of the woods A-SAP.

Leni

[Froufrou]

Help from Vitamin A? What does this tell us about the poor guy’s diet?

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[brityank]

Sad case, and if you don’t laugh you’ll cry.

I’m laughing AND crying! Great comment.

Thanks! :^)

[Rennes Templar]

Well you just couldn’t leave it alone, you had to pun. Good to know you’re branching out though.

[Froufrou]

A chip off the old block?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Do you think you’re too good to have something bad happen to you?

[MotleyGirl70]

Your comments are extremely mean, immature and pathetic. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

[avid]

But it is extremely disgusting. Imagine how it must stink. That is all dead tissue rotting in the humid tropical climate. Gives me the creeps.

Wonder if he will ever be able to work as a fisherman when they cut this stuff off of him. At least now he has work in the freak show.

Just hope his daugher doesn’t get it. Would be a damn shame.

[SunkenCiv]

I never saw such a thing. I hope someone can dig up the solution. I’ll axe everyone I know.

[Savage Beast]

"...he was often a target of abuse and ridicule in his rural fishing village."

Nice people, huh?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Good Lord, that’s almost as bad as elephant man’s disease...!

[Rennes Templar]

“I’ll axe everyone I know.”

Careful, you might get cut off on this thread. There’s folks here who think it’s not kosher, that we’re barking up the wrong tree. Almost the equivalent of treason.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, has anyone made the John Birch joke yet?

[Rennes Templar]

Knot until you did!

[SunkenCiv]

I think the guy in the story may have a problem with his limbphatic system.

[Rennes Templar]

“limbphatic system.’

lol

Whatever the cause, he has become quite poplar as a result.
Personally, I think he became to attached to his bonsai plant.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.rootboyslim.com/

[Rennes Templar]

Is rootboy Dede’s offspring? From his website he sounds like a son of a beech.