A woman battling with a rare condition is slowly turning into a human STATUE!

Her muscles are slowly turning into bones and she already lost her right arm to it.

Ashley Kurpiel is lost her arm because of her disease
Ashley Kurpiel is lost her arm because of her disease

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva or FOP is condition that only affects 800 people around the world. Though Ashley Kurpiel is battling with this rare condition, she vowed to herself that she will live life to the fullest before, worse comes to worst, she loses her ability to move.

The condition came from a mutation of the body's repair mechanism that will make muscles, tendons also ligaments to become bone material when they are damaged.

Ashley's condition is unfortunately incurable and debilitating disease. According to her mother, she first experienced the symptoms  when she was only a teenager.

According to her when she was only two and a half, the doctors have diagnosed her with cancer. The doctors went in and tried to remove what they thought was a Ashley's tumor. They even thought Ashley's parents that it will spread into her arm and they needed to amputate it.

However, after five months Ashley's doctors called them and reported that there was a misdiagnosis and Ashley does not have a cancer but a very rare disease that only affects one in two million people.

Ashley, in as sense, is growling a second skeleton and physically becoming a human statue. When she was only 25 years old, she lost her mobility on her right leg. So he had to learn how to walk and move around without the help from it.

She does not know how long until she loses her mobility so she tries to experience as much as she can. She tries to visit different places and do new incredible things.

She shared that other people suffering from this condition have lost not just their mobility but also their head and toe. Their jaws have even locked shut.

Even though she is having a lot of difficulties because of her condition, Ashley still said that she is, indeed, blessed, Her secret to having a happy life despite her disease is to look for the positive side of things and take each day as it comes.

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A woman battling with a rare condition is slowly turning into a human STATUE! A woman battling with a rare condition is slowly turning into a human STATUE! Reviewed by TrendSpot on Sunday, December 27, 2015 Rating: 5

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