THAILAND: A Thai woman is thought to have the world’s biggest hands.
According to the media reports, the 59-year-old woman named as Duangjay Samaksamam is suffering from rare but painful disease. Her hands are permanently swollen, weighing almost one-and-a-half stone each. The 59-year-old has the rare condition macrodystrophia lipomastosa, which causes vast fat deposits to distributed across her arms and hands Young boy can literally be scared stiff by simple tasks including taking a bath after being diagnosed with extremely rare startle disease.
She said in a statement that:
“My hands are so heavy I can barely lift them to comb or shampoo my hair, it’s very difficult. Getting dressed is also very difficult and painful.Some doctors said the only solution was to cut off my hands if I wished to walk around freely. But I don’t want to do that.”
She further added that:
“My mum told me that I was like this since I was born. I became afraid to go out or go to school, so I never learned to read.”
It causes vast build-up of fat deposits to be distributed across her arms and hands. Duangjay Samaksamam, from Surin Province, Thailand, is thought to have the world’s biggest hands, with each weighing almost one and a half stone.
Growing up she struggled to come to terms with her oversized hands – for which there is no cure – and spent most of childhood avoiding people, skipping school and hiding in the family home.