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Season 4

11 episodes · 2005

  1. 1The Girl Whose Muscles are Turning Into Bone

    07 Nov 2005 · 1 hr 0 min

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    Luciana Wulka's is just seven years old. She was diagnosed with Fibrodysplasia Ossifcans Progressiva, a rare disease, which is progressively changing all of her muscle tissue into bone.

  2. 2The Woman with Half of a Body

    14 Nov 2005 · 1 hr 0 min

    In this story, the deformed legs of Rosemarie Siggins were amputated when she was a child. Today, she works on cars and cares for her family in Pueblo, Colorado.

  3. 3Joined at the Head

    21 Nov 2005 · 1 hr 0 min

    Extraordinary People reports on conjoined twins, Josie and Teresita Alvarez, and, Lori and Dori Schappell, who were surgically separated as children. However, it did not go as well for the adult conjoined twins, Laden and Leleh Bijani from Iran.

  4. 4The Real Rain Man

    27 Feb 2006 · 1 hr 0 min

    In this episode, Extraordinary People reports on the savant Kim Peek who has an amazing recall of facts and information. He can remember everything he has ever read. His condition combines a mixture of both brilliance and disability. Using a brain scan, it was determined that he is missing the normal connection between the left and right side of his brain.

  5. 5The Twin Inside Me

    06 Mar 2006 · 1 hr 0 min

    How can it be that DNA testing proves that Lydia Fairchild cannot be the mother of her own children? In this episode, Lydia was found to be a "chimera" where at her own conception, two separate fertilized eggs merged together instead of growing as two separate twins.

  6. 6The Woman Who Lost 30 Stone

    13 Mar 2006 · 1 hr 0 min

    In this episode of Extraordinary People, Onnie Jackson of Nashville, Tennessee endures complicated surgery to removed excess skin from her body after losing more than 400 pounds!

  7. 7The Seven Year Old Surgeon

    20 Mar 2006 · 1 hr 0 min

    In this episode of Extraordinary People, Akrit Jaswal, just twelve years old, is studying at the University of India to be a doctor. He travels to Britain to be studied by scientists at the Imperial College.

  8. 8The Girl Who Makes Miracles

    03 Apr 2006 · 1 hr 0 min

    Audrey Santo has been in a coma since she was three years old, back in 1987. Since then, she has undergone stigmata manifestations, and religious statues in her room even cry with blood and tears. Thousands of people visit her every years in hopes for a miracle cure.

  9. 9The Boy with a Tumour for a Face (Update)

    10 Apr 2006 · 1 hr 0 min

    Extraordinary People presents an update on the Indonesian boy named Novemthree, who underwent radical surgery in Taiwan to remove a huge, facial tumor. One year later, his tumors have grown and now his life is once again in danger from suffocation and starvation.

  10. 10The Couple with 27 Children

    16 Apr 2006 · 1 hr 0 min

    A generous couple from Atlanta, Georgia, have adopted 23 handicapped children. John and Jeanette Murphy, together with their own four children, take care of the huge family. This is the story of thier daily life.

  11. 11Identical Quadsfinale

    24 Apr 2006 · 1 hr 0 min

    In this episode of Extraordinary People, four identical quad girls are followed in their growth in the Mathias family home.