The man has an elephant's leg

For 20 years, Mr. Dao Van Hai, 38 years old, in Chop village, Luc Son commune, Luc Nam, Bac Giang, dragged his great right leg with 75 cm thighs, bigger than the belly. The leg was so heavy that there was a time when the thin boss pulled his face down on the yard.

Hai's son is smaller than his father's leg.(Photo: Lao Dong)

Hai's right leg has normal neck and feet, especially the thigh and calf are loose, accounting for less than half of the body weight. Mrs. Dong Thi Nam, Mr. Hai's mother likens it to the "moldy mold of meat that is inserted into a chopstick for baking". The mass of flesh sagged like a liquid bag, rough skin, dark, many red spots, absolutely no hair on the legs.

The 10-year-old son hugged his father's giant thighs like a frog holding a piece of bamboo shoots. Recently, unable to pull up the "elephant's legs" to stand up, his boss fell down with his thigh in the middle of his yard. Blood splashed into the puddles, the thighs were long, 2 cm deep.

When born, Hai thighs have a gray, slightly lumpy birthmark. By the year of the 8th grade in Hai, his right leg kept growing every day, sometimes red, aching; he was afraid to quit school. It was difficult to plow, because he had to drag along his leg. Hai learned to work as a carpenter, a job that was rarely used for legs.

At a young age, Hai also bathed in the stream, after the leg was as big as the dharma leg, just going out to the stream was . sinking all over, so Hai quit. Pants, a big tube, a small tube. As for the big tube that served the seventeen-eighteen-pound weight of the thigh, it looked like a skirt. Recently, a professional tailor made clothes for Hai to go to the South to eat, so he did not have new pants for a long time.

Both Hai and his family believed that his nerves were getting slower and slower. The bigger the right leg, the smaller the left leg. In spite of illness, Mr. Hai came in like a shadow, very afraid to go to crowded places. His legs were too big, his steps kept staggering, stabbing a clumsy clumsy hand. Although the hand is chiseled and cut famous wooden furniture in some communes under Yen Tu's foot, but sometimes, the leg is sore, the brother is confused as well.

Once, he was cut off by a middle finger. Now, he works as a carpenter with his right hand with only the thumb and the little pinky finger. Someone said, right leg was deformed slowly, the right hand always slow. Mr. Hai believed that was the reason why he was punished for being cut off by 3 finger tips. The fear grew when one of the three brothers of Hải died of cancer at age 47.

Hai's mother said she and her husband did not " stick " to Agent Orange. However, his father used to have a long time working in Thong Nhat farm, specializing in processing pine resin, a quite toxic environment.

Currently no doctor clearly explained what Hai was sick, could not cure it, even though he went to the Vietnam - Sweden Hospital in Uong Bi, Bach Mai Hospital, Dermatology and many other hospitals in Hanoi. There is a doctor who told me not to have surgery. There was a doctor who told him that he was out of " old age " and that the " elephant leg " would stop by himself. But he waited forever.

Mr. Hai's biggest dream and his family are " peeling " the huge leg away. " Sell ​​a house to cut this devil's leg, I agree " - Hai said.