DHAKA, BANGLADESH — It may take a long time and an insane number of surgeries, but this Bangladeshi man couldn’t be pleased to eventually have his hands and feet back.
CNN broadcasts that Abul Bajander experiencing epidermodysplasia verruciformis, a rare disease that began causing lesions to appear on his skin at age 10. The lesions worsened over time, eventually surround both his hands and making it hard for him to earn a living as a rickshaw driver.
Bark-like growths had also begun growing from his hands and feet, making it impossible to do anything except scratch his neck.
The 27-year-old has been entitled “Tree Man” by worldwide media, and is one of only four people in the world to ever be diagnosed with the condition.
Doctors in Dhaka offered to treat him free of charge, and moved him and his family to the hospital last February to begin the first of many groundbreaking surgeries.
Sixteen operations later, doctors have extracted eleven pounds of growth and restored tree man’s hands.
He’ll still need a few more surgeries for beautification, but he now can at least eat, write, and hold his 3-year-old daughter on his own.
Watch this video below!
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