NOORSYAIDAH, THE WIRE WOMAN !!!

Have you ever imagine to live with rusty wires grow out from your body and hurt you for 19 years? How it feel when you cover it with your clothes, how it grow back when you took it off from your body, how much pain you have to endure and how hard life became for you..... Have you?

Her name is Noorsyaidah. She is a 42-year-old woman who worked as a kindergarten teacher At Sangata, East Borneo, Indonesia. This is her true story.

Mass Media in Indonesia called her wire woman because for 19 years she has to be suffering under trouncing of this strange illness, wires grow out of her tummy and chest. Noorsyaidah stomach and chest pierced by a rusty wire that comes out from inside her body.The wires are not only hurting her when penetrating out of the body, but also made her unable to move normally. She must always bent over and pulled her clothes off her body parts which are covered with wires, because if it is touch the wires, the wires will give her tremendous pain, because without being touch, these wires has been very painful for her.

This disease first appeared 19 years ago while Noorsyaidah still a student at the Mulawarman University of Samarinda. One day while bathing she found a wire came out through her body. The next day the other wires were emerging. The wires will grow to 10-20 cm long before then off by itself. Then from the wound where the last wire has been released, the new wire will grow back.This wire condition is also very strange because tainted by rust.

At first it took one week prior to a wire which grow to eventually separated from her body, but by the time, it took more time for one wire to be able to off by itself. Until now, there are wires that still are in its place for seven months. This causes the suffering and the pain grew longer.

During these 19 years, Noorsyahidah continue to seek answers to the causes and how to cure the disease, but no one could gave a definite answer. Her desire to receive care should be blocked by her financial problem. But then, in 2007, stories about her began appearing in the mass media in Indonesia and attracted many people. Luck was on her side at that time and Noorsyaidah have the opportunity to undergo treatment free of charge by a hospital in Samarinda. Unfortunately this one luck was not followed by a further luck.

A Wahab Sjahranie Samarinda Hospital forming a team of seven doctors and specialists in their respective fields to examine the health condition Noorsyaidah. Norsyaidah undergo a series of tests, such as blood tests, rongent, CT. Scan and others. They examined her tissue and also the wire.

Based on MRI results it had been found that the wires growth from beneath the skin surface so it is not interfere with the organ in the body. But the cause of rusty wire growth is unknown. Visible through MRI it found numbers of new wire is ready to grow through the skin.

"Medically, I have never found nor read of such a disease," said the doctor Ajie Syirafudin, The General Director of Abdul Wahab Sjahranie Hospital. “The human body does not produce iron wire, or even sticking out it of the body. “

Noor's condition, according Ajie Syirafudin, classified in what is called a corpus alienum.

"It is condition where a strange things which should not be there enters the body," said Ajie Syrafudin. Alienum corpus cases commonly reported in medical world, such as; surgical scissors left in the stomach, swallowed the ring in the esophagus, or marbles that accidentally enters the digestive tract. But there has been no case like Noor, who like to grow things. In addition, there has been no similar cases handled by physicians.

All Noor's bodily functions ascertained normal. There is no symptoms of infection found around the growing wires. Whereas normally the body will reject any foreign object inside.

"Wire is not the bone or any type. It's an iron wire," said Ajie Syirafudin.

Currently, the team doctor has claimed that they were not able to explain and help Noorsyaidah to overcome her illness. Noorsyaidah threatened to live in this condition until the day she passed away.