Kiss
11-02-2007, 05:40 PM
I don't know if scott has gotten this yet but...
Doctors battle to save 'human pin-cushion'
By Richard Spencer and Juliet Turner
Last Updated: 1:08am GMT 29/10/2007
Doctors in China have saved the life of a woman who had 26 pins and needles inserted into her body when she was a child in an apparent attempt to change her sex to a boy.
The objects were discovered when the 29-year-old woman, named in local papers as Luo Cuifen, went to hospital for a check-up after she started experiencing blood in her urine.
X-rays showed the 29-year-old woman, named in local papers as Luo Cuifen, had 26 pins in her body
They had penetrated vital organs such as the lungs, kidney and liver, while a needle in her brain had broken into three pieces.
Others in her chest were lodged near major arteries.
boy
The woman believes they were inserted into her as a child by her grandparents, who were disappointed she was not a boy.
They are now dead, but if true, it would be another example of the effects of the heavy preference for boys over girls in many parts of Asia.
Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JL4L2DNWGCQ53QFIQMGCFF4AVCBQ UIV0?xml=/news/2007/10/25/wpin125.xml)
I am just shocked about this gender thing.
Doctors battle to save 'human pin-cushion'
By Richard Spencer and Juliet Turner
Last Updated: 1:08am GMT 29/10/2007
Doctors in China have saved the life of a woman who had 26 pins and needles inserted into her body when she was a child in an apparent attempt to change her sex to a boy.
The objects were discovered when the 29-year-old woman, named in local papers as Luo Cuifen, went to hospital for a check-up after she started experiencing blood in her urine.
X-rays showed the 29-year-old woman, named in local papers as Luo Cuifen, had 26 pins in her body
They had penetrated vital organs such as the lungs, kidney and liver, while a needle in her brain had broken into three pieces.
Others in her chest were lodged near major arteries.
boy
The woman believes they were inserted into her as a child by her grandparents, who were disappointed she was not a boy.
They are now dead, but if true, it would be another example of the effects of the heavy preference for boys over girls in many parts of Asia.
Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JL4L2DNWGCQ53QFIQMGCFF4AVCBQ UIV0?xml=/news/2007/10/25/wpin125.xml)
I am just shocked about this gender thing.