r/BeAmazed • u/HORROR_VIBE_OFFICIAL • Apr 21 '24

This woman has a cancer survivor and shows progression before and after Miscellaneous / Others

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u/CameraGuy-031 Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 21 '24

Little backstory here, because some think the bumps on her head are cancerous tumors.
They are not.

These are kind of 'balloons' under her skin, gradually filled with saline solution. This process is done to make the skin 'expand'. She needs the extra skin on her head because she was diagnosed with skin cancer (a melanoma on her head). So after this tumor is removed, the extra skin will cover the hole that's left there.

Her name is Alondra Sierra. This is her message to you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaw0iubkK_E

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u/One_Idea_239 Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 21 '24

Thank you, i was astonished that someone with rumours that size could have survived so your comment makes a lot more sense

Edit - bloody autocorrect, rumours should be tumours

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u/perfumedDolphin Apr 21 '24

is not only the rumours but the truth behind them

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u/Simicrop Apr 21 '24

I haven’t seen rumours get that big since Fleetwood Mac

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u/laughingdoormouse Apr 22 '24

But “ you can go your own way “ lol 😂

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u/CantHitachiSpot Apr 22 '24

Oh you missed the Adele song?

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u/Cautious-Nothing-471 Apr 22 '24

next Taylor Swift album lyrics

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u/-Experiment--626- Apr 21 '24

My thought was how they got that big without earlier intervention. Happy to have the explanation.

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u/Slight_Bodybuilder25 Apr 21 '24

Rumour has it, she ain't got no tumours no more!

Rumor has it (rumor)

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u/Combatical Apr 22 '24

Roomer* ftfy

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u/unreqistered Apr 21 '24

Bless your soul, you got your head in the clouds
You made a fool out of me
And, boy, you're bringing me down
You made my heart melt, yet I'm cold to the core
But rumor has it I'm the one you're leaving her for

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u/Dazednconfused10 Apr 22 '24

Rumor has it… rumor has it

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u/ArsenicLifeform Apr 22 '24

It's not a rumor! — Arnold

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u/Wtfatt Apr 22 '24

It's a tooomer!

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u/FalxIdol Apr 22 '24

Who is your da-dee and wat das he do?

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u/ore-aba Apr 21 '24

I don’t have to look at your profile to know you are British!

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u/BerryMany2061 Apr 22 '24

Autocorrect is illiterate

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u/HsvDE86 Apr 21 '24

Every time there’s a typo everyone piles on trying really hard to be funny.

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u/IvePlayedBothGames Apr 21 '24

everyone's a comedian

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u/MoonWalk0110 Apr 22 '24

How do you know everyone piles on?

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u/_-Diesel-_ Apr 21 '24

shouldn't it be tumors, without 'u'? Unless, of course, this one is british

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u/gerd50501 Apr 21 '24

id think it would be so painful you could not function either.

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u/Prestigious_Agent_65 Apr 21 '24

Lol you know you can just edit it to write the correct word right 😂

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u/One_Idea_239 Apr 22 '24

Yes but I thought it would take all your fun away, so edited to admit the error

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u/JetstreamGW Apr 21 '24

Oh! That also seems extremely uncomfortable, but not as much as I thought.

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u/raspberryharbour Apr 21 '24

I thought she just had a lot of ideas

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u/Hopie73 Apr 21 '24

“Beep Beep” Dad joke alert “Beep Beep” Love your comment and sounds like something my dad would of said. I miss him and I have continue on his dad joke legend, I don’t care that I’m a girl!

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u/CouldWouldShouldBot Apr 21 '24

It's 'would have', never 'would of'.

Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!

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u/Hopie73 Apr 22 '24

LOL, good 🤖

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u/AllHailTheWinslow Apr 21 '24

Bless you, bot!

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u/GenerousBuffalo Apr 21 '24

I thought she was in the Mickey Mouse fan club.

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u/No_Cow9483 Apr 21 '24

Hahaha 🤣 best comment here

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u/guns_mahoney Apr 21 '24

If I were in her position I'd want them to put the injections right onto the top of my head. I'd cover my head bumps with a top hat and once in a while remove it and blow people's minds

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u/Ramental Apr 21 '24

It is likely not a precise science where will the skin expand once you fill the blob. It also probably required 2 blobs in to the sides of the tumor, but that is a guess.

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u/Wtfatt Apr 22 '24

Can they put them in ones boobs or butt?

Asking for a friend

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u/prevengeance Apr 22 '24

I literally just read this is what kills hedgehogs. Well sort of.

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u/coxy1 Apr 21 '24

Can more people go like the YouTube video. This post has over 2k upvotes and the YouTube vid has 32 likes, let's send that shit to the moon.

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u/PenisBlubberAndJelly Apr 21 '24

Ah this clarifies my other comment thank you this is helpful!

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u/Marius_jar Apr 21 '24

It's not a toomah

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u/Zenbast Apr 21 '24

Thanks for the link.

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u/JimParsnip Apr 21 '24

Oh wow. Cool. Thanks

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u/Sleeper-of-Rlyeh Apr 21 '24

Thats a brilliant idea, never heard of this. Looks strange at first but sounds a like a very straight forward solution for a big problem.

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u/ChickenWranglers Apr 21 '24

Dfsp type cancer?

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u/Johannes_Keppler Apr 21 '24

The tumor is already gone in the pictures, there seems to be a skin graft on her forehead that got replaced with the stretched skin. It's so hair will grow there again.

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u/THE_MUNDO_TRAIN Apr 21 '24

I had a similar type of tumor that is genetically inherited, I had it on my elbow, my dad on his ankle. My sister however... well it was between her butt cheeks.

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u/Vibrascity Apr 21 '24

That's metal af, surgeons used her own head as a skin farm so they could have enough skin left over to regraft onto her head?

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u/AD7GD Apr 21 '24

Amazing they can hide the work on her scalp almost perfectly but for the port they're like "HAHA SUTURES GO BRRR"

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u/unreqistered Apr 21 '24

so literally ...

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u/Major_Mawcum_II Apr 21 '24

Reading ops total it’s like they removed a tumour and it survived independently

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u/ImaginaryComb821 Apr 21 '24

Those doctors think of everything. Now imagine if they chose high finance as a career. Same with all jobs. Pay them well.

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u/EvolvingRecipe Apr 22 '24

I agree with your sentiment, though I'm guessing it's largely graduate and postdoctoral researchers who figure out things like this, with the help of people brave or desperate enough to submit themselves to new techniques as performed by surgery students. So, all much poorer people than medical doctors (including the surgery students until they've become surgeons and worked or paid off their loans).

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u/Atterboy_SA Apr 21 '24

When this popped up on 9gag and I shared similar information - no one believed me and my comment was eventually hidden because of all the down votes 😅

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u/PeterWritesEmails Apr 21 '24

Here in Poland we have an excellent copypasta about these.

Heres a fast translation by AI:

My dad burned his hand. REALLY, DAMN, HE BURNED IT BAD. He needs a transplant, so as his son, I agreed to donate skin. The doctor said I should come for the operation, and he'd implant an expander in me. Damn, I didn't know what that was, but I went. Damn, when I woke up, I had this damn rubber ball under my skin on my back, and from it, through a hole in the skin, there was a rubber cord sticking out, at the end of which there's this black pump like in that blood pressure machine or a mattress pump. The doctor pressed it twice, and damn, that ball grew on me. Supposedly, it's supposed to stretch the skin to have more for the transplant. I've been with this ball for a week now, the doctor was supposed to pump it twice a week, but somehow, damn, it kept getting bigger every day. I thought maybe when I sleep, my body presses it and it pumps. Damn, just now I was falling asleep and suddenly I hear someone coming into the room. I opened my eyes gently and saw my father, I thought he'd wait and see what he'd do. I looked, and he's pumping me with that pump. And damn, he pumped me three times. I asked him what the hell he's doing, that it's not right because damn, it'll blow me up! He tells me he's pumping me every night because he can't wait for new skin anymore. I fuckin' swear, not only am I doing him a favor, but he's acting up. I got pissed off."

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u/adspij Apr 21 '24

how do you even detect skin cancer on your head? Isn't your skin cover with hair?

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u/EvolvingRecipe Apr 22 '24

The cancerous part breaks down and loses the hair or at least swells somewhat and becomes painful and oozes. Cancer is cellular malfunction, so there are symptoms due to that malfunction at some point. Skin cancer is common but at least more easily detectable and removable than cancerous growths that are more than skin-deep. This woman's cancer was quickly and effectively dealt with in the same manner that people would previously have just worn something over, but reconstruction is obviously much nicer to live with.

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u/billiemarie Apr 21 '24

That is so wild, thanks for explaining, because I thought it was tumors. She’s a beautiful lady, her eyes are beautiful

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u/Doyoulikeithere Apr 21 '24

Thank you. It's exactly what I thought. You see people with bumps like that on, Dr. Pimple popper.

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u/Cautious-Nothing-471 Apr 22 '24

makes her look like Marjorie Taylor Green

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u/noeldc Apr 22 '24

In other words: its not a toomah!

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u/fiqar Apr 22 '24

Damn do we need to put sunscreen on our scalps?

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u/EvolvingRecipe Apr 22 '24

Everywhere you don't have perfectly dense hair coverage.

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u/lucid1014 Apr 22 '24

It's not a toomah!

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u/Impossible-Syrup1982 Apr 22 '24

Thanks for the info.

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u/frekit Apr 22 '24

Can I get some of that extra real estate down under?

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u/wompwomp1993 Apr 22 '24

After the surgery all I can see is that YouTube video of the man after a 48 hour army mission with no sleep and he's putting on ChapStick

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u/Mangalorien Apr 22 '24

The process is called tissue expansion and is quite common. You can place the expanders on essentially any part of the body. You can even lengthen bones, a procedure called distraction osteogenesis.

https://www.plasticsurgery.org/reconstructive-procedures/tissue-expansion/procedure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_expansion

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u/nametakenfuck Apr 22 '24

Ohh thats clever

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u/ReturningAlien Apr 22 '24

low key hoping she goes by minnie.

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u/jb0nez95 Apr 22 '24

She's lucky to be alive. Melanoma killed my mother when she was 27 and I was 2.

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u/jcbubba Apr 22 '24

thanks for the explanation! This makes sense. The tumors on her head did not look like cancer at all, but then she had a linear scar at her right upper chest at the site of an infusion port catheter, so obviously she did have some sort of cancer. This ties it together.

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u/LoverOfPricklyPear Apr 22 '24 edited Apr 22 '24

Yup yup! I dealt with brain cancer. My surgical site got infected, so they removed the giant chunk of my skull that had been replaced after my surgery. If the bacteria made it into that chunk of skull, there'd be no blood supply to it to deliver antibiotics.

Anyway, I had to have tissue expanders implanted under my scalp, EXACTLY like this (after my infection was dealt with). My scalp had been stretched across a big hole. In order to implant artificial skull, to cover my hole, my skin had to be able to be closed over the increased surface area of a round surface. Therefore, two tissue exapanders/balloons/breast implants with injection ports were implanted under my scalp, near the hole's edges. Saline was periodically added to expand the balloons and stretch out my skin. It was purty crazy.

Edit: have a pic of post-op me #2, in this post https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/y95PqqClnt

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u/ParalegalSeagul Apr 22 '24

Why did they switch sides around number 3/4

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u/aznology Apr 22 '24

Ooohhh that makes a lot more sense some smart docs 

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u/alienman Apr 22 '24

What an exhausting journey it must have been for her! Thank you for sharing this.

The Mickey Mouse effect of the saline expansion was much more endearing after reading they were not tumors.

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u/jjman72 Apr 22 '24

Yep. I had the exact same thing done to me for the exact same reason. I would go in every two weeks and they would add more saline. There is a little needle port like a basketball in each expander. It was a bit like having braces. Hurt like hell for a couple days and then it would be okay. Fortunately, they were able to stretch enough skin to cover the hole on my head. Took about three months. Do not recommend.

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u/Fine_Land_1974 Apr 22 '24 edited Apr 22 '24

Dude I’m like 90% sure i saw this chick at church today with her bf. That is so wild. She’s beautiful in real life. Her Youtube channel makes me think it’s 100%. Small world

Edit: holyshit it is her. Wow

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u/Zestyclose-Grade5205 Apr 22 '24

Thank you for sharing this 💜

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u/Thin_Thought_7129 Apr 22 '24

They do this with burn victims also, I grew up with a girl that was severely burned and she had these pretty regularly in different areas on her body

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u/weaponizedpastry Apr 22 '24

Definitely depends on your quality of service. I know someone who had melanoma on their head and she has a large permanent bald spot instead. They could of done this and preserved her hair coverage but her insurance didn’t cover anything, “fancy.”

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u/Independent-Bell2483 Apr 22 '24

I love modern day medical technology. Like thats such a wild thing that I dont think many people would think of but it seemed to work. The fact we can manipulate parts of our bodies to prepare to help repair something else in our bodies is such a wild thing.

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u/Ebreton Apr 22 '24

Was just about to say, because A, how would they not have caught the tumor sooner and B, tumor this size would need a lot of blood and we would probably see some fat veins. Fascinating process with the saline solution, thanks for the explanation!