# This week's bizarre medical odditiy. Man turning into a tree.
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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 14, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369 "2007-11-14T14:41:53Z")
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/101 "2007-11-16T20:50:09Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass]
you never hear of stuff like that happening in Illinois or Paris
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The two gals whose heads share one body are in Minnesota. Or is that exotic in your book?
> **[Abby and Brittany Hensel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel)**
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> This is an accepted version of this page
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> Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel (born March 7, 1990) are American conjoined twins. They are dicephalic parapagus twins (having two heads joined to one torso), and are highly symmetric for conjoined twins. Each has a heart, stomach, spine, pair of lungs, and spinal cord. Each twin controls one arm and one leg. When they were infants, learning to crawl, walk, and clap required cooperation. They can eat and write separately and simultaneousl...
I don’t know if the guy in this thread is turning into a tree, a huorn, or an ent.
Seriously, I’ve seen horrible warts, so bad that they physically obstructed the anus, urethra, and vagina of one woman. But no so bad as this guy.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-weeks-bizarre-medical-odditiy-man-turning-into-a-tree/426369/102 "2007-11-16T20:51:59Z")
Oh, I have heard of them. It just seems chances are, this is happening in some village somewhere that doesn’t have running water. I’m sure, like **Broomstick** said, it has to do with lack of access to medical care.
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