Due to Proteus syndrome, a man rose to 240 centimeters in height

The man with the most common English name Robert Smith has a very unusual and, to be honest, unhappy fate. 24 year old a Cambridge resident has become a prisoner of his own home, because his skeleton does not stop growing and at the moment Robert doesn’t fit in his big wheelchair, which is the number one problem. Photos from open sources An Englishman’s disease is called Proteus syndrome. This is a very rare congenital disorder, in which there is an excess and ugly growth not only bone tissue, but also skin. It is believed that he suffered from such an ailment the famous “elephant man” Joseph Merrick, who lived in Victorian England at the end of the 19th century and the former walking sensation for both doctors, for frightened inhabitants. Mr. Smith weighs 120 kilograms, has a 50th shoe size, height 2 meters 40 cm, giant men have hearing and vision problems, and in medical stories – 74 surgeries. Plus epilepsy and hydrocephalus. Three years ago, Robert suffered from meningitis, lay seven weeks unconscious and since then unable to walk. Photos from open sources Photos from open sources Relatives and friends are now trying raise 8 thousand pounds in order to buy Smith individually designed for its titanic dimensions a stroller with a motor. Mostly the 66-year-old takes care of the patient a mother named Rita. Over the past three years, the patient has been on the street just 4 times. Robert was born in Norfolk a month earlier term. Mothers had a cesarean section and were told to live unusual baby is no more than a month. No forecast confirmed. By the age of two, the boy had eight in his head shunts for draining excess fluid by 10 years at Smith’s the head already had a titanium plate, and the diagnosis of Proteus syndrome doctors put in 16 years. Photo from open sources It is believed that in the world an ailment “elephant-man” suffers only 120 earthlings. Bones of such people grow asymmetrically, so the disease necessarily spoils the body and leads to complete disability. Robert Smith, for example, in the brush the arm contains 21 bones more than necessary. Because of what hand constantly and painfully. The elbows and knees are also hypertrophied, and the skin is so thin that it can be torn with a simple pinch. History the unfortunate giant living near Cambridge became the property British media, and now there is hope that people will gather money for a disabled person on a new chair with an electric motor. Because otherwise no funds will be enough to care for Smith. Photos from open sources