Here’s an odd story that I bookmarked a few weeks ago and then forgot about it (although, I don’t know how I could have forgotten about a story this interesting). The link goes to the original story, which has some video along with it. I pasted some of the written article because WOOD doesn’t keep many of their stories up for too terribly long.
Story from WOOD tv8: “Teen cries tears of blood”
A Tennessee teenager is confounding doctors with a unique medical condition in which he cries tears of blood.
Calvino Inman, 15, cries blood three times a day, sometimes up to an hour, according to the Daily Mail .
“Sometimes, I can feel it coming up, like a tear. I feel my eyes watering,” Inman said. “Sometimes, it will burn as it comes out.”
Inman’s mother, Tammy Mynatt, said the first time she saw the tears, she 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,” Mynatt said.
Inman has had to endure the comments of his friends and classmates who believe he might be possessed. “I guess I’m used to it now. At first, it kind of hurt my feelings,” he said.
Even after an MRI, CAT scan and ultrasounds, Inman’s condition remains a mystery.
Some believe Inman might be suffering from a rare condition called haemolacria. “That is just a descriptive term of the manifestation of the bloody tears,” opthamologist Dr. Rex Hamilton told Good Morning America . “‘It says nothing about what’s causing that. It’s a one-in-a-million kind of condition.”
I love the non-diagnosis. I suppose it makes people feel better to at least affix a name to something, even if it is a meaningless diagnosis.
This is a strange and sometimes a very alien world. What we don’t know still far outweighs what we do.
There was also a story about this U.S. teen in the UK news: “The U.S. teenager who cries tears of blood three times a day”
And a related story, from Sept 2008: “Girl who bleeds without being cut baffles doctors: A girl who spontaneously bleeds from her pores…”
