My Shocking Story

My Shocking Story

Documentary

How do you cope if you are born physically different, or grow up to look different? What happens if you have a condition that is so rare, that even world medical experts cannot name it, let alone cure it? How, would world experts in medicine set about trying to identify and name such rare conditions, and even try to find cures?

Documentary

EPISODE 1

Human Spider Sisters

Follow three stories of conjoined twins: Mateo and McHale who've just been separated; Ganga and Jamuna who chose to stay joined; and an eight-limbed baby with a parasitic twin.

43 min · 25 Sept 2009
EPISODE 2

Treeman Meets Treeman

Radical surgery on Dede the treeman's growths seemed to have worked. But the warts are returning, and another sufferer has been found. Now treeman meets treeman.

43 min · 25 Sept 2009
EPISODE 3

World's Tallest Giants

The story of Yao Defen, the world's tallest woman. In this extraordinary film, she meets the world's tallest man for the first time.

44 min · 25 Sept 2009
EPISODE 4

Albino Crisis

Follow Professor Murray Brilliant as he goes to Africa to perform pioneering research into leprosy and albinism, risking the wrath of witch doctors who covet albino body parts.

43 min · 24 Oct 2009
EPISODE 5

My Giant Head

Sain Mumtaz has an extraordinary head that just keeps growing. Can a team of expert doctors from Australia and Pakistan find out what condition he has, and is there a cure?

43 min · 17 Nov 2009

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My Shocking Story

DOCUMENTARY

How do you cope if you are born physically different, or grow up to look different? What happens if you have a condition that is so rare, that even world medical experts cannot name it, let alone cure it? How, would world experts in medicine set about trying to identify and name such rare conditions, and even try to find cures?

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Audio: English (United States) (AAC)