Body Horror/Real Life: Difference between revisions

* Cancer that has gone out of control before being discovered. Think of this: your body has started to rot before you die, and it was too late when you realized this. Now the only treatments available (if not too late) are just as horrible and invasive as the disease, with a high rate of mortality and probably less parts of your body. If you survive, you have to be careful because cancer can spread through your body...ANY part of it. There's a reason why everybody is always encouraging people to get periodical examination, people...

** Even cancer that hasn't gone out of control yet can be pretty Body Horror-ish. Imagine having a mass of cells inside your body that grows uncontrollably, is programmed to ''never naturally die'', can travel through your lymphatic system and take root in places other than where it appeared, and can only be stopped by surgically removing it, bombarding it with radiation or subjecting your entire body to rather poisonous drugs. Stuff of nightmares, it is.

** It's called so because after a prolonged abuse the skin in the place of injection starts turning green and scaly.

* Guinea worms. If you drink any water from a river or stream in certain parts of Africa, you can swallow guinea worm larvae which will literally ''hatch and grow inside your body.'' Guinea worms love to pop out of the skin, mostly at extremities, when they grow large enough. The only treatment is to very, very slowly pull the worms out. This is very painful and can take days. Luckily efforts by health groups has almost eradicated guinea worm except for parts of Africa.

* Abscesses. The only ones worse that the ones that get bigger and bigger and bigger are the ones that don't, because they ''rupture'' and spew putrid toxic pus.

* [[wikipedia:Raymond Robinson (Green Man)|This guy.]]