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Medical Mystery: Boy Who Cries Blood

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by DcProWLer277, Sep 1, 2009.

  1. DcProWLer277

    DcProWLer277 Rookie

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    It's a medical condition shared by a creepy villain in the James Bond movie "Casino Royale," but for 15-year-old Calvino Inman, crying blood is a real-life, everyday hardship.

    The Tennessee boy cries blood uncontrollably, sometimes three times a day, and doctors cannot tell him why.

    "Sometimes, I can feel it coming up, like a tear. I feel my eyes watering," Inman told ABC News affiliate WATE. "Sometimes, it will burn as it comes out."

    The tears, he said, can last up to an hour. In pictures, Inman is shown with the red teardrops rolling down his face, leaving a bloody trail up to eyes brimming with more blood.

    Inman, of Rockwood, Tenn., said even his friends have called him "possessed."

    When it first occurred, Inman's mother called 911.

    "The scariest thing in my life is when he looked at me and said, 'Mom, am I going to die?' That right there broke my heart," his mother, Tammy Mynatt, told WATE.

    Mynatt has taken her son for an MRI, a CAT scan, ultrasounds and to specialists. But no one has been able to diagnose this medical mystery.

    Possible Diagnosis: Haemolacria
    Ophthalmologist Dr. Rex Hamilton said Inman could be suffering from a rare condition known as Haemolacria, which means "bloody tears."

    "That is just a descriptive term of the manifestation of the bloody tears," Hamilton told "Good Morning America." "It says nothing about what's causing that.

    http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8458647

    Wow that's pretty sad. What more can you say?
     
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  3. Nice Rollin

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    did it already air on Natgeo? i saw the commercial for it
     
  4. The_Yoyo

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    Vampire

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    welcome the new evolution of "man" people
     
  5. meggoleggo

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    Dang! You beat me to it. Though I was going to go for Eric.
     
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    So he'd be popular with the emo kids?
     
  7. Nero

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    You think that's amazing, you should see the boy who cries wolf.

    ;)
     
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    I'm gonna say its some form of HPV. Thats seems to be the diagnosis for all the wierd symptoms lately.
     
  9. Lynus302

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    Yeah. Emo kid faints.
     
  10. BrooksBall

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    The kid must be a Rockets fan.
     
  11. RedRedemption

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    Is this kid the one who goes by
    "BleedRocketsRed" on this forums?

    That's true determination right there.
     
  12. ghettocheeze

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    Lestat and his shenanigans -- will they ever end ?
     
  14. DribbleHooper

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    That would be The Girl Who Cries Blood.
     
  15. Nice Rollin

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    girl who cries blood on natgeo right now
     

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