That's a huge bitch!

New Hope for 6-Foot 11-Inch Woman Who Can't Stop Growing

As if you couldn't tell, the woman on the right is the one about whom this article was written.

Disclaimer: I am not making light of the condition, I’m really not, I know there are significant health risks involved. But come on, you know for a fact that I can’t leave well enough alone. To be fair, most of my comments are about stupid quotes in the story, as opposed to this poor woman's disease and how she suffers from it.

Click the link above for the whole story, I just pulled bits and pieces for my own evil purposes.

Little more than a decade ago Tanya Angus looked like a perfectly normal teenager -- tall, pretty, athletic and popular at school.
Uh oh, now for a sob story.

But shortly after graduating high school, the Nevada woman's life began to change. She went from a height of 5'11" and a weight of 120 pounds to towering at nearly 7 feet and weighing some 400 pounds.
First of all, let me say that I am 5’0” and the lowest I’ve ever weighed was more than 120 pounds. I hate this woman for that.

Now she’s almost 6’11” and weighs almost 400 pounds. Sounds like justice to all us short, fat girls.

After being diagnosed with acromegaly, also known as gigantism, Angus underwent numerous surgeries and tried countless medications in an effort to control her growth and the devastating side effects of the disease, which can include hypertension, an enlarged heart, heart disease and diabetes. To date, she remains the only documented case of gigantism in the world where surgeries and medicine have been virtually ineffective.
So, she makes it into the Guiness Book of World Records. Score. Hey, apparently this is highly desirable as of late. (Seriously: read about the giant enchilada.)

Does anyone else find it ironic as hell that her last name is Angus and she suffers from this disease? Because I’ve stood next to a Black Angus and couldn’t see over its back. You do the math.

It's extremely rare. Only 50 in one million Americans suffer from it -- though many cases go undiagnosed, according to Dr. Lisa Nachtigall, co-director of Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroendocrine Clinical Center. She says most people aren't diagnosed until they've suffered from the condition for seven to 10 years.
Wait, wait, doesn’t 50 in 1 million work out to 1 in 20,000? Someone correct me if my math is wrong here.

"It is important to diagnose early because of the potential medical consequences of the condition," Nachtigall told AOL Health. "Patients' hearts can get very big and not work right."
Thank you, I am so freakin’ glad you went to med school to tell us this. Man, I thought bigger was better – the bigger my heart was, the better it worked. Damn, shatter my illusions.

Seriously, like we couldn’t figure it out on our own. In fact, like we couldn’t tell you that because of the cause of death to Andre the Giant.

But Nachtigall says most of gigantism's symptoms, including diabetes and hypertension, are reversible with medical treatment. "Everything gets better with good therapy," she says.
I wouldn’t think these would be symptoms, I think they would be more like side effects. But what the hell do I know, I’m not a doctor.

"The biggest issue for people suffering from acromegaly is a higher risk of dying," Nachtigall says.
No shit, Sherlock. Wow, and to think I wished I was a giant cause I thought it meant living longer. So glad she was there to set me straight.

“[B]ut that risk is reversed if treated."
Is it reversed? Or just controlled? Because I don’t think if you treat them they will somehow live longer than a normal person – it just helps keep their internal organs from outgrowing their bodies so they can maintain a normal lifespan, not a superhuman lifespan. I hate this doctor. If I ever get diagnosed with a  rare disease, please make sure I don’t end up at Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroendocrine Clinical Center.

You know how useful this dude would be in my house? :)