9. Deepak Paswaan
When Deepak’s mother was expecting him, she felt a lot of pain and some complications from the pregnancy. Deepak was born with four extra limbs jutting out from his body, and it turned out that he was housing a parasitic twin inside his body.
Deepak became known as “The Eight-Limbed Boy” and he clearly had a pair of legs and arms coming out of his chest and stomach. The good news is that Deepak was able to undergo an extremely intense surgery – all at no cost to his family, who certainly would not have been able to afford it.
Such a surgery would have cost about $50,000! Deepak was seven years old when he was given the free operation in his native India in 2010. His quality of life drastically improved, even though he was still considered to be a “devil’s child” by some of the people in his village.
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