From now on, whenever I feel like my life is less-than-steller, I'm going to remember the poor bugger I saw on TV a couple of nights ago. He is/was a fisherman in Malaysia or some place and he has some weird ... no ... not some weird ... the absolute weirdest disease I've ever heard of. His hands and feet are the size of large fielder's mitts, are black/brown in colour, and look exactly knarled tree roots ... especially since the knarly, interwoven, root like malady continues up his arms and legs. There is no resemblance to human feet or hands left at all. You would swear he was some digitally enhanced comic book superhero like "Tree Man" or something. Recently, even his face has started to transform as well and is beginning to cover over in huge black/brown mole-like tumours, which if they continue to grow like on the rest of him, will eventually engulf his entire head. Unbelievably hideous.
The doctor, who flew half way around the world to visit this guy in his small village, to attempt to identify his malady and hopefully cure him, figures he's got some sort of mutant wart thing going on. These "warts" continue to grow like thick roots, twisting and intertwining until there's absolutely nothing human-looking left.
So if you're feeling sad, and thinking your life sucks, think of poor buddy and his slow transformation into a tree. At least you're not him.
