{"id":151,"date":"2008-04-23T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-04-23T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:08:37","slug":"tree-man-who-grew-roots-hopes-to-marry-after-4lb-of-warts-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/tree-man-who-grew-roots-hopes-to-marry-after-4lb-of-warts-removed","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tree man&#8217; Dede Koswara almost died from his disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 37 yearold entered an Indonesian hospital because of the huge tree-like growths that had encased his limbs for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>But an X-ray quickly revealed that the immune deficiency stopping him fighting the warts had also allowed a potentially deadly TB infection to take hold.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rachmat Dinata, leading the team treating Dede at the Hasan Sadikin    Hospital in Bandung, West Java, said: &#8220;Five years from now, he would    have been dead.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"359\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RkizRC5mZYQ&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"359\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RkizRC5mZYQ&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/1904870\/'Tree-man'-Dede-Koswara-almost-died-from-his-disease.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest at The Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 37 yearold entered an Indonesian hospital because of the huge tree-like growths that had encased his limbs for 20 years. But an X-ray quickly revealed that the immune deficiency stopping him fighting the warts had also allowed a potentially deadly TB infection to take hold. Dr Rachmat Dinata, leading the team treating Dede at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-is-like-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}