Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Strange Photo of a Baby Born With Brain Growing Into His Nose

A toddler whose brain grew inside his nose has been described as the ‘real-life Pinocchio’ by his proud mother. Ollie Trezise, from Maesteg, Wales, was born with a rare condition which caused his brain to grow through a crack in his skull into his nose.

The 21-month-old has been forced to undergo several painful operations to help him to breathe and close the gap in his skull. But his mother, Amy Poole, 22, said the brave youngster has been bombarded with cruel comments from strangers.

One even said he ‘should never have been born’ while other taunted him, calling him ‘ugly.’
‘It’s absolutely heart-breaking,’ said the full-time mother-of-two.

‘Once, a woman told me I should never have given birth to him. I nearly burst into tears.
‘To me, Ollie is perfect. He is my little real-life Pinocchio and I couldn’t be prouder of him.’

Miss Poole first discovered that something was different about Ollie at her 20-week scan when doctors told her he had unexpected soft tissue growing on his face.

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However, she was still shocked by his condition after giving birth to him at the University Hospital of Wales in February 2014.

Miss Poole, who has since split from Ollie’s father, said: ‘When they gave me Ollie to hold, I was so surprised that I almost couldn’t speak.

‘He was so tiny, but there was this enormous golf-ball sized lump on his nose.

‘At first I wasn’t sure how I would cope. But I knew that I would love him no matter what he looked like.’

An MRI scan later confirmed that the lump was an encephalocele – a defect that causes the brain to grow through a hole in the skull, creating a protruding sac.

In Ollie’s case the sac hadgrown on his nose, causing it to stick out.

Over the next nine months, as Ollie’s body grew, so did his nose – just like Pinocchio.

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