So its been some time now since the operation that removed 11 lbs. of bone and tissue of the man with the world’s largest hand, Liu Hua of China. Somehow it seems that all the majority of crazy birth deformations are centered around China. Maybe it is time for Chinese industry to stop polluting the air these people breathe (China is the most polluted country in the world) and cut down on the extreme birth defects and deformed babies.

Anyway, Liu had some extreme plastic surgery and I can not find any info about how he is now.  but here is the story from 8/2007

From the Shanghai daily article last year:

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poor Dede, talk about not catching a break in life. Dede has an extremely rare condition that causes sick looking giant woody type warts to grow all over his limbs. The grotesque warts make him look like a tree because his body looks like bark, he is now called the treeman.

Here is Dede the treeman trying to light a cigarette around the strange and bizarre deformations on his hands

The treemans hands and feet before surgery

covered in gross warts before surgery

Dede is now undergoing surgery to remove the growths, so far 4 lbs. of ugly warts have been surgically cut away and Dede can almost use his hands and feet

From the telegraph news site and discovery channel The images, taken in an Indonesian hospital, show him using a mobile phone and eating and drinking unaided. Around 4lbs of warty horns have been removed from his limbs, allowing him to use his hands and walk without pain for the first time in 20 years.

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Just sick shit :: surgeries, Liposuction, said to be the most popular cosmetic surgery in the US according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS). Here is a very graphic liposuction surgery video. This cosmetic surgery procedure is not gentle at all and the giant needle used to suck out the body fat is just horrific. It seems almost weekly there is a news story about someone dying on the operating room table or a short time after getting liposuction. Kanye West’s mom, comes to mind, as she too had liposuction and
some other cosmetic surgeries performed.

Click Here to See the actual liposuction surgery - graphic surgery video

Liposuction involves inserting a needle through the skin and drawing out some of the underlying fat. It is being done to add definition and most surgeons do not condone using liposuction for weight loss. Many surgeons now even require the patient first lose weight before liposuction is performed if the patient is very overweight.

I had an overweight friend who went to a few different cosmetic surgeons trying to get lipo and a tummy tuck, she was refused by all until she lost weight naturally (she was really overweight, maybe by 50lbs.).

Liposuction is the most popular form of cosmetic surgery in the United States,

The 403,684 liposuction procedures performed on Americans in 2006 represent a 128% increase over the number performed in 1997. Interestingly, this same procedure—during the same year—was the top cosmetic surgery performed on men in the United States. In addition, the 383,885 liposuction procedures performed on U.S. women ranked second only to breast augmentation.

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