Surgeon McKay McKinnon will operate two women with horrible facial tumors

by eyedrd

American surgeon McKay McKinnon, who recently successfully removed a 90kg tumour from a man’s leg, continues his charity work and is about to give the same new lease of life to two other patients horribly disfigured by tumours.

Patient Thach Thi Sa Ly has thousands of tumours covering her face, body and even eyes, while Kieu Thi My Dung has horrifying tub tuber-like tumours obscuring half of her face.

The news was released by Doctor Nguyen Truong Son, head of Cho Ray General Hospital in Ho Chi Minh to VnExpress Newswire Thursday

Sa Ly and Doctor McKay McKinnon at Cho Ray Hospital

Sa Ly, 35, from the southern province of Soc Trang, suffers from a strange skin disease which has resulted in thousands of tumors covering her body from head to toe.

The tumors are of different sizes, with some as big as lemons or oranges. Ly can hardly see, as her eyes are also covered with these carbuncles.

Thach Thi Sa Ly, a 35-year-old woman from a small, rural village in Soc Trang province, Vietnam, lives in constant pain and agony from the thousands of small tumours that have taken over every inch of her body.

Her body is literally covered by thousands of growths, some as small as pimples, and many as big as lemons or oranges, Tuoi Tre News reported.

They have taken over her legs, body, arms and face, and have even spread to her nose and even covered her eyes.Ly lives a life that is unimaginable in agony to most, nearly blind because of the growths which block her vision and in constant pain that has robbed her of her mobility

She has been living in pain for over 20 years and cannot walk, so Ly has had to depend on her 60-year-old mother, Thach Sa Phai, for her daily activities.

Doctor McKinnon is scheduled to perform surgery on Ly on Sunday, Doctor Son said, while another operation on My Dung will be done on Saturday. Both of the patients are now hospitalized at Cho Ray.

Kieu Thi My Dung and her mother

My Dung, 22 from Da Lat city, has a large tumor that covers the most of her face. Dung’s mother said she was only 1.5kg at birth, and both of her eyes looked different from the other. A small tumor started developing near her eyelid when she was three months old.

Kieu Thi My Dung has half a face covered with big tumours

When Dung was three months old, a small tumour appeared near her eyelid. The tumour is now very big, covering Dung’s face.

On Thursday Doctor McKinnon successfully removed a 90 kilogram tumor from 32-year-old Nguyen Duy Hai in a massive 10-hour operation that he led with a team of local doctors and nurses of the France – Vietnam Hospital.

Hai has been bed-ridden for years because of the huge size of the tumor.