The man With 4 extra fingers & toes

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bngenoh

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His fingers really are perfectly functioning:
They call him 'Twenty-Four.' Yoandri Hernandez Garrido's nickname comes from the six perfectly formed fingers on each of his hands and the six impeccable toes on each foot.

Hernandez is proud of his extra digits and calls them a blessing, saying they set him apart and enable him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees to cut coconuts and posing for photographs in this eastern Cuban city popular with tourists.

Known as polydactyly, Hernandez's condition is relatively common, but it's rare for the extra digits to be so perfect.

Anyone who glanced quickly at his hands would be hard-pressed to notice anything different unless they paused and started counting.

Hernandez said that as a boy he was visited by a prominent Cuban orthopaedist who is also one of Fidel Castro's doctors, and he declared that in all his years of travel he had never seen such a case of well-formed polydactyly.

'Since I was young, I understood that it was a privilege to have 24 digits. Nobody has ever discriminated against me for that,' he said. 'On the contrary, people admire me and I am very proud. I have a million friends, I live well.'

Nevertheless, it occasionally caused confusion growing up.

'One day when I was in primary school, a teacher asked me how much was five plus five?' Hernandez recalled. 'I was very young, kind of shy, and I didn't say anything. She told me to count how many fingers I had, so I answered, '12!'

'The teacher was a little upset, but it was the truth,' he said.
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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030944/Meet-Twenty-Cuban-man-extra-fingers-toes.html

That is a pretty cool "condition."
 
My Cousin had a 'stillbirth' within the past 6 months, and the baby had 6 fingers and 6 toes, but the baby did not live. She had that condition "preaclampsia" (or however you spell that)...

Strange sincronicities happening as I find out soooo, so much information!
513 :-[
 
Hi 513,

I'd like to invite you to post an intro in the newbies section. It doesn't have to be long, just a little something about yourself and how you found the forum. :)

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/board,39.0.html
 
513 said:
I am HOPING I DID just post to the newbie...am I missing something?
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You didn't miss anything, 513. A little after I posted my message to you, you posted your intro. Perhaps a bit of an overlap in time? Anyhoo, many thanks! :)
 
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