My name is Kenny. I'm 30 years old and I have over 400 tumors on my body, on my back from
the top of my neck down to my tailbone.
I probably got over 200 tumors on my chest.
I probably have 40 to 50 tumors on my head.
I have 2 to 3 dozen.
And in between my arms and legs, I probably have another couple dozen.
And over the past few years, the tumors on my body have grown massively.
They just started popping up out of nowhere everywhere.
And Gardner syndrome actually is what caused the tumors.
And they still have no idea why they grow or what makes them grow.
I'm just living my version of hell.
I'm really excited to see Kenny, but there's always a little bit of apprehension when
you're about to see somebody that you know has an extreme form of a condition.
I may be able to deal with a regular epidermoid cyst.
But if somebody has Gardner's syndrome and that's causing these cysts, maybe they're
going to be a little different.
I don't know whether I can help them or not until I get my eyes on him.
I have never seen this many bumps on somebody, so this is really a daunting task.
My plan of attack is to address the large bump on his back first and then when we take
care of the big ones there, we can address his face.
But really, first and foremost in my mind is really controlling his nerves.
So this one on top, you see how it's like, that's your back right there?
Yeah. Wow. So happy that Dr.
Lee was able to get that massive tumor taken off my back.
She did an amazing job.
It's been about two and a half months since the first procedure with Dr.
Lee and I look amazing.
Honestly, What can I say?
Everything's healed up nice, and you can hardly see any scarring anywhere.
She did an amazing job.
My forehead smooth, got my jawline back.
I don't have, you know, massive tumors on the side of my jaws.
It's a new me. I mean, it's somebody that I haven't seen in 20 years.
My name is John.
I have a nose is the size of a plum.
I started noticing big changes in my nose.
And in 2000 and last 30 years, when nose has grown twice as wide and longer, it feels kind
of like snake skin and then scars.
It's rough to have this problem for 20 years.
It's terrible.
I'm trapped. Don't get out.
Don't associate with people.
I'm a hermit, backed up in the house and stay in it all the time.
This nose caused me not to be with my family.
See my family, my little great granddaughter.
She'll look at you and say, Is that your nose?
You know, I mean, it's just it's embarrassing.
This is not how I want people to remember me.
So I guess I know what you're coming in for.
How long has this been going on?
20 years, probably.
It's just gotten worse.
Okay.
It's all right.
It keeps growing.
Well, let me take a look at this.
Okay. Can I have you take your glasses off for me?
Thank you.
Yeah, it does feel like rhinophyma to me.
Or the thickening of the nose.
Now, you wear glasses most of the time.
Yes. Okay. Oh, I can see the weight of it is really kind of pushing down on your nose,
huh? And making it hard for you to breathe.
So the main issue is how much it kind of takes over a part of your nose and just got
to figure out where your nose is under there.
That's the challenge.
With Dr. Lee can do something.
My nose would be the happiest day of my life.
I will be so excited.
I'll probably be jumping up and down screaming.
That's my surgery two months ago.
My nose feels better.
Mother. And looks considerably better.
My nose is pretty close to what it was 20 years ago.
It's actually better than what I ever dreamed it could be.
Nose looks good.
Face looks old.
I'm Jody Pietro. I'm 41 years old, and I have bumps on the back and side of my head.
I got, I think, 7 or 8 from the size of, like, a pea to the size of, like, an orange.
When I was 14 years old, I noticed two small bumps on my forehead.
I had those removed when I was about 18 years old, but I noticed more start to grow
and they got bigger and bigger through my 20s and into my 30s.
And in the last 3 to 4 years, they've almost doubled in size.
It's kind of like living life with an evil twin on your head or something.
So, okay.
They don't hurt. I mean, you can move them.
Yeah, they don't. They don't bother me.
That one's like a weird shape.
Weird. Weird. You got.
Another one? Next texture.
Actually, there might be two next to it.
Yeah, I would say that these are Pilar cysts.
The fact that you've had these for a while and they're pretty big.
Yeah. You've been.
You've been trying to avoid me or other people like me.
Yeah, for sure. When Pilar cysts get this large, that tells me that they've been around
for quite a while, and probably they have a pretty good blood supply getting nutrients to
them. And certainly the longer that they're around and the more they get banged up, the
more irritated they are, the more difficult they are.
So there's always an increased incidence of bleeding and probably the bigger they get,
the more they beget being complicated.
I'm excited to have it done, but nervous just to any time you have surgeries, they're not
just pimples. She's popping.
They're they're big bumps.
Fingers crossed. Let's do it.
Okay. Let's take a look at your head.
Well, it is bumpy.
Nowhere near as bumpy as it was.
Good. Great. That's awesome.
It's been a little over two months since my procedure with Dr.
Lee, and I couldn't be happier.
My head looks totally different without these five cysts coming out of the back of
it. It's nice to be able to reach back there and just feel it and it feels like everybody
else's head. It's kind of funny that you'd even be thankful for a round head, but if you
don't have a round head, you'd be thankful for a round head.
My name is Cedric.
I'm 52 years old and I have a knot on my eye and a huge knot on my neck.
I first noticed the lumps over ten years ago.
Not on my eyes.
Feels like fresh Play-Doh.
Once you pull it out the jar.
As constantly stinging and itching one on my neck, The pain shoots down my spine and all
over my back. I'm in constant pain, Sitting, laying, walking, standing.
It just constantly hurts.
My biggest fear for my dad is him not being healthy.
I feel like if you're not able to just look after yourself, the quality of life is a
little lesser.
I'm tired of looking like this, and I'm tired of feeling the way I feel about it.
I haven't worked in over eight months and bump on my neck.
It affects my mobility to do things that I normally would do when I bend over to pick
something up and hold my head down.
It hurts real bad as Dr.
Lee couldn't move and I don't know where else I could turn to.
Oh, look at this little friend you have here.
Moves around real nice, but it's pretty dense.
And that was been here for ten years or so.
Okay. And let me take a look at this, if you don't mind.
Hopefully I can pop this out very simply.
That will certainly make him happy and it will make me really happy.
It's a little bumpy right now.
Oh, man.
Why are you saying it like this in years?
Looking in the mirror for the first time.
I can't believe what I'm seeing.
I never thought I'd be looking this way again.
It's been two months since Dr.
Li removed my bumps, and I feel wonderful.
Dr. Lee did a wonderful job.
She did amazing.
This of 2.0.
And Paula, I'm 72 years old and I can't walk because of my feet.
My legs look like raw hamburger that spoiled it smells like my bowels are coming out.
I am so used to the smell of it that I don't even notice it anymore.
They itch so bad it feels like bugs crawling under your skin.
And I just keep scratching until I've made it bleed.
I found maggots between my toes.
And then my son came over and said, You can't stay here like this anymore.
You have to go into the hospital.
So I went into the hospital.
The nurses came in and cleaned up the wounds.
They did an x ray to make sure that the maggots hadn't gotten into the bone and sent
me home. I have thought about amputations.
I've even had nightmares about maggots crawling up to my brain.
But the biggest fear is that I won't find an answer.
All this sort of like build up, almost like it's sweating right now.
It's the fluid.
The fluid comes out and dries.
They're heavy. They're like logs.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, these are very, very heavy.
Yes. Paula's legs have a very strong and very distinct smell.
And it's like you took toe jam and you took yeast that you just reconstituted and you
whip that up in the bowl of your armpit.
Before Doctor Lee, I was down.
I was depressed.
I didn't know what was going to happen to me.
She's been like a ray of sunshine opening things up so I can actually see what I need
to do to get myself better.
I am very determined to make it through this situation.
I need my mobility and I'm fighting to get it back.
I want a big hug.
Okay. If that's okay.
Absolutely. Yes. You look great.
Thank you, doctor. Keep doing.
Keep up the good work.
Okay. Keep up the good work, sir.
My name is Jacqueline.
I'm 42 years old, and I have this huge mass on my right shoulder, and I can't stand it.
I hate it. In fact, my boyfriend Brad calls it my third boob.
It feels mushy, Soft, fatty causes me all sorts of pain.
It feels like burning and being cut with a piece of glass is the best way I can describe
it. Although I've never had both done to me at once.
That moves around nicely.
So did it start more back here and then it's pushed up front or where did it start?
What'd you.
Say? I seen the bulge kind of from the front, so I guess it would probably mostly was
located right here.
Okay. My first impression of Jacqueline's bump is.
Yeah, it's pretty big.
I would say it's within the top 20 or so Lipomas.
And, you know, bigger is not better.
I mean, it might be better for fans who like popping, but it's not better for me.
The good thing is it's moving because that means I don't think that it's really bound to
a muscle or bone.
However, the bigger a lipoma, the bigger the chance that I might not be able to remove it.
So let me grab your mirror.
Okay. See that arm right there?
Oh, my.
Gosh.
Right. This is all fluid.
Wow. Wow.
Yeah. I'm so excited.
I feel like a different person right now.
It's almost like you want to go run on top of the buildings and just start hollering and
feel like you're not being a freak, you know, like, because you're happy.
It's been almost six weeks since I had my procedure with Dr.
Lee and I do feel like an entirely different woman now.
Jackie's back.
I haven't seen that part of my body flat for ten years.
I feel free and I don't feel like I have to hide from the world and be a hermit anymore.