[HIGHTECHDUDE]

Sad situation... and now I have a sneaky suspicion where Gene Roddenberry got his ideas for the Star Trek pilot...

(May, 2024) — Shocking images show how a 30-year-old woman's head has seemingly tripled in size due to a rare condition that kills up to half of sufferers before they turn three.

Graziely Alves Régis, from Brazil, has been bed-bound and unable to talk for years and recently lost her eyesight as her head has kept growing.

Her ordeal started before she was born, developing hydrocephalus — an abnormal build-up of fluid around the brain — in the womb.

The resulting pressure can damage the internal tissues and deform the shape of the skull. It can even be fatal, if the pressure damages parts of the brain responsible for keeping the heart and lungs working.

Graziely's mum, Adalgisa Soares Alves, 49, provides her almost constant care and said she hopes to give her daughter all her love for many years to come.

She is unable to walk, talk or see as her condition has continued to worsen and her head has increased in size.

Adalgisa said she first knew something was wrong when she was eight months pregnant with Graziely after experiencing intense pain in her womb.

An ultrasound by medics revealed that her unborn daughter had hydrocephalus, which affects around one in every 500 babies.

Doctors estimated that her baby would only live for about three months given the extent of the condition.

When born, Graziely was dubbed a 'giant baby' due to size of her head, which has grown even larger over the years.

However, she has defied medics grim expectations on her lifespan and will turn 31 next month.

Hydrocephalus' cause is usually unknown but may be due to issues with cavities in the brain or an underlying health problem that affects blood flow, such as heart disease.

It can also be acquired by damage to the brain due to a head injury, stroke or tumor.

Treatment is shunt surgery, which involves implanting a thin tube into the brain to drain away excess fluid to another part of the body where it can be absorbed into the bloodstream.

If untreated, hydrocephalus can be fatal due to increased pressure compressing the brainstem, which is responsible for regulating heart rates and breathing. A patient's prognosis after surgery depends on their age and general health.

While hydrocephalus can usually be treated with surgery, Adalgisa claims that nothing could have been done before or immediately after Graziely was born.

If left untreated, as in Graziely's case, hydrocephalus kills about 50 per cent of children before the age of three, with only about one in five surviving to adulthood.

[kellyhound]

the aliens are here

[Tadhgín]

Sorry that’s rank
Look at her fucked up hands and feet too ..

Please stop allowing disfigurements of this calibre to live

This woman straight outta the fuckin night garden

[Mr.NoCredit]

Does it even know it’s alive!?!

Can it experience anything at all!?! It looks like a poop machine. Put food into one end and wait for it to come out the other. There’s nothing in between. Is there?

[SavageGlow]

That's just crazy.

[Ozymandias]

a disgustingly enlarged skull that only a mother could love. if it could speak, it would say "kill me."

[VileGirl]

Lmao well that is actually terrible.. I wouldn’t want to live that way. Personally, I think it’s selfishness, of the family.

[tandc]

It looks incredibly painful.

[UrnAsh]

That poor woman, just a shell of a being.

[Karma]

That’s not living. It’s a nightmare very slow death. She can’t talk, hear or see! What’s the point of forcing this on her. I’d rather have died as a baby. Fascinating though and very interesting. Thank you.