Following the birth of her third child, a boy, nearly 25 years ago, 60-year-old Shanti Devi, who once stood five-feet tall reportedly shrunk gradually to just two-feet.
According to Mirror UK, she entirely relies on her children for assistance as the condition makes it impossible for her to make any movement.
She said, “I have been living like this for nearly 25 years now. This is painful. I get bored but I can do nothing on my own. I miss sitting and waking and meeting my friends or watering plants.”
Her husband, Gangacharan Kushwaha, a 62-year-old farmer, added,
“She was perfectly healthy and leading a normal life when we got married thirty five years ago.
Problems only started after the delivery of our third child, a son. She had become weak and very slow.
After three months, she complained of severe pain in her bones that had become stiff. After a couple of months, she noticed changes in her body as she was looking smaller.
She told us but we did not believe her until we realised she had shortened by half feet in just four months. However, she could walk.
One day, while neighbours were fitting their new thatched roof, she was looking at it and it accidentally fell on her legs. After that accident, she could not get up on her feet.
Her bones had become weak and tight. She complained of severe pain and eventually lost physical strength and became bed-ridden.
I took her to several hospitals for treatment. Wherever people suggested to me, I took her there. Even when I had no money, I did not lose hope. But there was no result. Eventually I gave up on her treatment.”
While Shanti’s condition has left her family distressed, she has become a tourist attraction in her village in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh in north India.
Meanwhile, a local physician, Dr Pankaj Srivastava, believes her condition looks like Brittle Bone disease or Osteogenesis Imperfecta.
He said: “I cannot say anything without diagnosis but it looks like to be a case of OI, a genetic disease where bones become fragile and break easily. But without examination, nothing could be said.”
Only in India. Na wa oh.
Wonders will never end
Cn dis be true?
Hmmm
this is crazy
A lot unheard stuffs are really happening these days.