<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/91d7f44b-43fb-4604-ab4b-661bac2b5ec8/1D111A8F-84A3-4C24-A4EA-5489DED3DF96/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/lucianawulkan.html" href="http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/lucianawulkan.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/lucianawulkan.html"><P>Luciana Wulkan loves to dance and race around like many other little girls her age. But the seven-year-old is living in the shadow of a terrible disease - she is gradually being turned into a human statue by a very rare medical condition.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/lucianawulkan.html"><P>Luciana has fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), an affliction that turns muscle into bone, leaving victims frozen into position, Eventually, this extra bone-growth crushes the internal organs, causing death. The incurable condition is so rare, only 200 people in the world have it and Luciana is one of only 45 sufferers in the UK.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/lucianawulkan.html">When Luciana was born she appeared to be perfectly normal except that her big toes were shorter than the other toes. As her mother, Pina, would learn later this is one of the main clues when diagnosing fibrodyspasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). Pina takes Luciana to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, one of the few hospitals in the world that specialises in FOP, to </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/lucianawulkan.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/img/FAE8E076-1A6E-4106-AF28-9DA50C0D7703" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/lucianawulkan.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/img/7C629C9C-AC9E-4823-AF57-899F1CE61BB9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/lucianawulkan.html"><H5>Robert Kinghorn</H5></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1D111A8F-84A3-4C24-A4EA-5489DED3DF96/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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