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Phones / Re: Hacker Is Trying To Hack My Facebook Account As He Demands 40k (Pls Help) by joedave(m): 4:17pm On Nov 01, 2021
chatinent:


Oga, I don't do this for free. I don try reach this level. Follow the prompt. Use the regular phone you use to login.

As you can see, they've changed your name. They have also started using it to bomb clients. But it has been disabled making it easy for you to recover.

I don't like to work for Nigerians. You guys hardly appreciate. You like it when you are billed aforework.

Na my data I dey burn.

Na man you be!

No be by Gra gra. No be by age, Na by what one knows that some don't. This is what define difference.

Anybody wey dey beef, make hin self go learn am then come online come flaunt hin knowledge. If he's got the knowledge already let him indicate, we are here to bring our cases of one vindictiveness and another, so he can solve it for us by tracking on real time for free.

Ain't sure they will get this far for free as you've displayed so far. Yet they're the first telling others how it's not worth hailing someone who's done what they can not do!

Gbafun Oga ejor

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Phones / Re: Hacker Is Trying To Hack My Facebook Account As He Demands 40k (Pls Help) by joedave(m): 11:58am On Nov 01, 2021
KingOfAmebo:


"Keep believing fraud until you become a victim yourself, someone is playing on your intelligence and you are too blind to even realize it...Ias las una go get sense". - Village People spokesperson

No p!

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Phones / Re: Hacker Is Trying To Hack My Facebook Account As He Demands 40k (Pls Help) by joedave(m): 11:55am On Nov 01, 2021
Oyin2212:
Chatinént mad ooo grin
He don spoil business

Guy, watch how many in this same dishonest boat will lunge at Chatinent, calling him fraud and fake because he just made it more auspicious acting as an X-Man thereby making them to seek a second thought and watch their backs.

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Phones / Re: Hacker Is Trying To Hack My Facebook Account As He Demands 40k (Pls Help) by joedave(m): 11:46am On Nov 01, 2021
mummyson26:

Had same issue but I was able to recovered it after 7months

You know why I am so exhilarated about this, I lost mine too and got it back after two years plus. But here is a guy that has gotten almost all he needs to hunt the hijacker in less than 48hrs if he could by the way of the details through Chatinent including pictures.

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Phones / Re: Hacker Is Trying To Hack My Facebook Account As He Demands 40k (Pls Help) by joedave(m): 11:41am On Nov 01, 2021
KingOfAmebo:


"You mean you got all this info just by reading the post with no form of getting any details of the "supposed" hacker, it's either you are the hacker or you are Odewaleadesoye or working for him...

Some gullible people (your next victims) are here hailing you. Nuff said...If you are truly as good as you claim, I am giving you permission to also provide all my details here now.

No argument, proof yourself here now for all to see scammer.

See as joedave even dey pray for this scammer, Agozie48 self wan market scammer for free...Wonders shall never end, This is how you end up falling victims when you fail to use your brains". - Village People spokesperson.

My brother Kingofamebo, I pray you won't need certain help before you look gullible yourself. God go help you ooo. If you think it's gullibility, no wahala.

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Phones / Re: Hacker Is Trying To Hack My Facebook Account As He Demands 40k (Pls Help) by joedave(m): 11:05am On Nov 01, 2021
chatinent:
Details of your hacker:


My charge: pay me anything you wish.

Phone numbers: 07062332129, +23323 549 1776

Pictures: below.

Suspected Nairaland accounts: https://www.nairaland.com/kleanson (could be a show promoter).
https://www.nairaland.com/nollygist204

Names: FirstNollyTv, Blaqtv,



Possible locations: Nigeria, Ghana.

Real time location: Picture below.

YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCwY1BjSZHCP5djFCKixZorw

Twitter: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://twitter.com/firstnollytv%3Flang%3Den&ved=2ahUKEwiM9NSHx_bzAhWJkhQKHVXMDc4QFnoECBAQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0UkBu_j9HkUb00qQWcSCgK

Instagram: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.instagram.com/firstnollytv/%3Fhl%3Den&ved=2ahUKEwiM9NSHx_bzAhWJkhQKHVXMDc4Qjjh6BAgPEAE&usg=AOvVaw204yoaiv83j15RaY80aqU0



Advice: even if you pay them, you will not get your account back.


✌️

Oh Chatinent, may God bless you deeply.

For His Glory, His mighty hand shall show forth in your life and situation in this New Month.

Every seed of discomfort shall be removed and you will be relieved. God will make your blessings to be an enduring blessings, it will never diminish.

When you call one, multiple shall attend to you
.

You just gave hope to this guy! Even if the hacker ended trading the account but there's assurance he's in the cooler soon. God bless you. Not many will do this first-hand without asking for a dime.

Kudos Chatinent!

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Nairaland / General / Re: First African American To Get A Face Transplant! by joedave(m): 9:18pm On Oct 19, 2021
Chelsea’s 30-year-old daughter Ebony was even more concerned than her father. Seeing him in critical condition after his accident was like “going to a movie theater and watching the scariest movie that they had out, and you replayed it over and over and over,” she says. “You went through all that, and all of a sudden you want to go over here and [have another procedure]? Any surgery has complications.”

But Chelsea ultimately wanted to eat and drink normally, to spit, to swallow a pill, to close his mouth—and, most of all, he said, to kiss Ebony on the cheek. Eventually he decided those promises outweighed the risks.

It took a while, he says, to recognize the significance of becoming the first African-American face transplant recipient. When the realization came, it was tinged with discomfort. “There is a degree of pride, admittedly, and yet I’m not sure that it’s something to be proud of,” Chelsea said about six months before his surgery. “To celebrate an individual because they haven’t done anything any more than anybody else, they just happened to be there at the right time … there’s nothing holy about those actions.” Still, Chelsea could recognize that the surgery came with a higher purpose: providing a positive example of how transplantation can change lives, especially for black Americans. “We are a lot more hesitant to be a donor,” he says. “It causes us to lose out when we need a kidney or a liver or a lung.”

Chelsea’s surgeon was undaunted by the year-plus search for a donor, even after coming so close with the first face last spring. “All it takes is one. Sooner or later you will find one,” Pomahac said about six months before ultimately finding the donor face that would become Chelsea’s. Last year, less than 7% of the organs procured in overwhelmingly white New England, where Brigham and Women’s is located, came from African-American donors. While Pomahac and his team could theoretically accept a donor organ from any region, the hospital’s policy dictates that travel to the donor site cannot exceed four hours, in part to preserve the function of the organ. To look outside New England—as Pomahac and his team eventually did—would require finding a location within easy flying distance of Boston.

Chelsea never second-guessed his decision to turn down that first face—but he also couldn’t have guessed how long the search would drag on. He and Pomahac had used a 1-to-18 scale to discuss potential donors’ complexions—1 being the lightest—on which Pomahac says Chelsea is a 15 or 16. They originally looked for donors falling from 8 to 16 but, after months of no luck, Chelsea eventually agreed to consider donors as light as 5. Even that didn’t work.

Then, this spring, Pomahac encouraged Chelsea to consider a full facial transplant instead of the partial one they’d planned to replace just the lower portion of his face. Pomahac was mostly focused on cosmetics, but Chelsea and his family hoped the decision would also speed up the search process by eliminating the need to blend exactly with Chelsea’s surviving skin, making imperfect matches less obvious. Chelsea agreed to the full transplant—and finally, more than a year after he joined the transplant waiting list, he got the call in July. His doctors had found a match with a near identical skin tone. He had 24 hours to make the biggest decision of his life, based only on descriptions of the donor’s complexion, age and medical risk factors, then fly from Los Angeles to Boston for the surgery. “I had to believe,” he said that day. “I was just hoping that it was a legit call.”

In another state, another man had just received a very different phone call. Shortly after learning that his 62-year-old brother had died suddenly, James, 51, was approached by the Gift of Life Donor Program about donating his brother Adrian’s internal organs—and his face. James didn’t know his brother’s wishes but was staunchly in favor of organ donation himself after serving in the Air Force, where he says the practice was valued. He knew that Adrian—a talented athlete and guitarist who loved to play Hendrix, worked in construction and was always “ready to light up a room”—would want to help someone else. “He would give the shirt off his back for anybody,” James says. After calls to his five other siblings, James decided to move forward with donation, comforted by the fact that part of his older brother would be “still here and on this earth, [so] he lives on.” He had no idea that his brother’s would be the first African-American face ever to be transplanted.

Nairaland / General / Re: First African American To Get A Face Transplant! by joedave(m): 9:15pm On Oct 19, 2021
“Do you see the way they look at me? It’s cute. They’re curious,” Chelsea said the first time we met, in November 2018, months before his surgery. He’d told me to drive straight from the airport to his gym in Victorville, Calif.—it was Monday, and he always worked out on Mondays. From there, we went on an errand to Metro-PCS, then to pick up tacos for lunch. People stared, but Chelsea was good–natured about it. “I don’t blame them,” he said. “It’s scary. It’s like I’m wearing a Halloween mask.”

Five years after his accident, Chelsea insisted that his appearance didn’t bother him, in large part thanks to the deep-seated Christian faith that helped him through his recovery. He also joked that he was “no knockout looker” before the accident, though friends and family remember it differently. His acceptance was so unflinching, in fact, that when Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, director of plastic-surgery transplantation at Brigham Health, first approved him for a face transplant, Chelsea wasn’t sure he wanted one at all.

Chelsea’s attitude was exceptional. Losing one’s face—a person’s introduction to the world—is psychologically scarring for most who experience it. Face-transplant recipients are required to undergo extensive counseling to ensure they’re prepared to accept their new appearance. It can be especially difficult when one’s racial identity is also at stake. While a black patient awaiting a kidney or heart doesn’t need a black donor, a complexion match is considered crucial for visible transplants, to preserve as much of one’s identity as possible.

Physical appearance is far from the only determinant of racial identity, but it’s certainly a factor, says Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, a professor at North Carolina State University who studies the topic but has not worked with Chelsea. Accepting a face from a donor with a much lighter skin tone could present a nuanced set of emotions, she says, since black identity exists across a spectrum of colors, hair textures and facial features. A drastic change in appearance can unmoor someone from his or her identity, potentially resulting in psychological trauma, she says. Dr. Sheila Jowsey-Gregoire, a transplant psychiatrist at the Mayo Clinic who has not worked with Chelsea, says that while most face-transplant patients have done the hard work of accepting that they’ll never look exactly like they once did, altering their racial identity could lead to unforeseen negative consequences.

The need for a precise color match further shrinks an already small pool of potential donors: in the federal survey on organ donation, only about 41% of black respondents said they’d be at least “somewhat” willing to donate a face, vs. about 61% of Caucasian respondents. Even Chelsea, who is largely un-interested in the superficial aspects of appearance, balked at the prospect of accepting a face so much lighter than the one he knew.

It wasn’t just the possibility of a stranger in the mirror that gave Chelsea pause. Organ-transplant patients need to take immune-system suppression drugs for the rest of their lives to keep their bodies from rejecting their donor organs. His health had been stable in the years after his recovery from the accident, and the transplant would take him back to a world of constant doctor’s appointments and medications. And while Chelsea’s surgery would be performed for free, thanks to a grant Brigham and Women’s received from the Department of Defense to test a less cumbersome post-transplant immune-suppression regimen, his family would still have to pay some travel and caretaker expenses associated with the surgery. When NYU Langone last year performed the first face-transplant covered by commercial insurance, the hospital estimated it would have cost about $1.5 million out of pocket. Even without taking on any of those costs, Chelsea’s family had to launch a GoFundMe to pay for miscellaneous expenses, raising more than $75,000. Even more conventional transplants can be expensive. Tweedy says the financial burden of becoming a living donor and recovering from an invasive surgery, which often requires time off from work, discourages lower-income patients—who tend to be disproportionately of color—from participating in transplants.
Nairaland / General / Re: First African American To Get A Face Transplant! by joedave(m): 9:11pm On Oct 19, 2021
Famous historical examples mix with families’ more contemporary, personal stories of mistreatment, leaving many African Americans skittish of doctors, says Dr. Damon Tweedy, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Duke University School of Medicine and the author of Black Man in a White Coat. “There’s some remnant of that that you internalize,” he says. Though he’s black himself, Tweedy says patients have asked if his hospital is “experimenting” on them or using them as “guinea pigs.”

It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that many African Americans are hesitant to volunteer for medical -studies—often an important first step in developing effective treatments. A ProPublica analysis of Food and Drug Administration data found that in many trials for drugs approved from 2015 to 2018, less than 10% of research participants were black. (The research community is working to close such gaps through initiatives like the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us trial, a million-person study trying to recruit under-researched populations.) As a result, doctors today know far more about white bodies than about black bodies, even though black Americans report higher rates of conditions like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and many cancers—largely because of centuries of structural inequities that have, among other consequences, left more than 10% of black Americans without health insurance compared with about 6% of whites, and 21% of black households without secure access to quality food compared with less than 10% of white households.

Understanding that complicated history is crucial to understanding the state of organ transplantation in the U.S. today. Black patients, on average, face longer waits for major organs like kidneys, lungs and hearts than white patients, meaning more may die before they get the surgeries they need. That’s in part because African Americans, who make up about 13% of the U.S. population, account for roughly 30% of the transplant waiting list, according to federal data. By contrast, about 65% of deceased donors are white, and white Americans make up only about 40% of the waiting list.

Higher rates of chronic disease among African Americans mean both that a disproportionate number need transplants, and that fewer have living family members healthy enough to donate organs like kidneys and livers. Even if they do, Shuck says, “we don’t want to ask our family because we don’t want to put them at risk, so we languish longer.”

Religious and philosophical beliefs may also play a role, says Dr. Charles Bratton, a transplant surgeon at Loma Linda University Health who has studied donation disparities. Jehovah’s Witnesses, 27% of whom are black in the U.S., do not accept blood transfusions, which can also dissuade them from being involved with organ transplants. Members of some religions that believe in resurrection, like Southern Baptists, may also want their bodies to be whole when they die, even though most religions allow organ donation. Finally, people in the U.S., unlike those in some European countries, have to actively opt in to organ donation rather than opting out, further depressing donation rates. All told, according to the most recent federal survey on attitudes toward organ donation, only 39% of black Americans’ driver’s licenses marked them as organ donors, compared with almost 65% of white Americans.

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Nairaland / General / Re: First African American To Get A Face Transplant! by joedave(m): 9:08pm On Oct 19, 2021
Chelsea was having car trouble one Monday night in August 2013, so he pulled onto the shoulder of a highway outside his home near Long Beach, Calif. Soon after, a drunk driver slammed into his car, and it burst into flames. Chelsea, a sales manager for a rubber-stamp business, was rushed to a hospital with third-degree burns covering almost half his body.

After being transferred to the University of California Irvine Medical Center, Chelsea spent four months drifting in and out of consciousness as doctors fought to save his life. He had 18 surgeries in that time—mostly skin grafting for his burns, but also abdominal operations to treat serious gastrointestinal complications that had developed as his body struggled to stay alive. Blood pressure medications shunted blood flow to his heart and away from his extremities, leading to tissue death in his lips, nose and fingers. One of his surgeons, Dr. Victor Joe, called him “one of the sickest patients we’ve had.”

Chelsea left UC Irvine in December 2013 with his life—but by the end of his recovery he would lose his lips, the end of his nose, several fingertips and two-thirds of his intestines. His face was severely scarred, and his hands were covered in cadaver skin that matched Chelsea’s skin tone but never quite mimicked its texture; Chelsea called it his “snakeskin.” All told, he would eventually carry the skin of three different people. An organ donor himself before the accident, he had no idea how difficult replacing his skin would prove to be.

The barriers went up long before Chelsea was born. In 1932, researchers from the U.S. Public Health Service launched a study at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute that would change the American medical system for decades to come. The trial was covertly designed for researchers to observe the effects of untreated syphilis over the course of four decades. Six hundred black men, mostly share-croppers, enrolled in the trial, lured by the promise of free transportation, meals and medical care. About two-thirds of the men had syphilis, and half were given the then standard treatment of arsenic and mercury. The other infected men were given no treatment at all—even after penicillin was discovered to be an effective syphilis therapy in the 1940s. They were left to die; pass the disease on to partners and children; or develop complications like heart failure, mental instability and blindness.

When the Associated Press exposed the study in 1972, public outcry was immediate. Survivors and the families of deceased patients won roughly $10 million in a 1974 settlement. Two decades later, in 1997, President Bill Clinton apologized for Tuskegee, calling it “deeply, profoundly, morally wrong.” But the wound was deep, and it would scar. “African Americans still do not believe the health care profession will take care of them,” Shuck says.

That mistrust wasn’t built on Tuskegee alone. In the 1800s, enslaved people were commonly drafted as unwilling, unanesthetized subjects for medical experiments, and their deceased bodies were frequently dissected. Even after slavery was abolished, black patients were often turned away by white doctors and hospitals. When they did get treatment, it wasn’t always ethical. Henrietta Lacks famously had her fast-replicating, cancerous cervical tissue taken without consent in 1951; the cells eventually became a lucrative cornerstone of medical research, kick-starting a decades-long debate over informed consent and who profits from scientific advancement. Such incidents, and numerous others like them, still loom large, especially in a world where many physicians, according to one 2017 research review, implicitly favor white patients. “The whole medical system follows along with the racism that the country was built upon,” says Dr. Vanessa Grubbs, a nephrologist at the University of California, San Francisco.

Nairaland / General / First African American To Get A Face Transplant! by joedave(m): 9:04pm On Oct 19, 2021
He’s the First African American to Receive a Face Transplant. His Story Could Change Health Care!

As the first African-American face-transplant recipient, here's how Robert Chelsea may change the health care system forever.

Robert Chelsea turned down the first face he was offered. It was a fine face, one that could have taken him off the transplant waiting list after just a couple months. But Chelsea—severely disfigured after a catastrophic car accident five years earlier—was in no hurry. He’d gotten used to tilting his head back so food and water wouldn’t fall out of his nearly lipless mouth. He knew how to respond compassionately to children who stared in shock and fear. The face, offered in May 2018, had belonged to a man with skin that was much fairer than what remained of Chelsea’s—so light that Chelsea, who is African American, couldn’t bear the thought of becoming “a totally different looking person.”

Chelsea’s doctors understood his hesitance. Face transplants in general are rare. Since the first partial one was performed in France in 2005, fewer than 50 have been completed worldwide. A new patient joining the ranks is always noteworthy, but Chelsea’s case carries even more weight than usual. Because he is the first African American to receive a full face transplant, Chelsea’s treatment is expected to have ripple effects that transcend his case. Disparities in the medical system that cause black Americans to die at higher rates than whites of so many things—like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and HIV/AIDS—have also produced gaps in organ donation and transplantation. Widespread mistrust of the medical system has made many African Americans wary of tissue donation, contributing to donor shortages; in turn, only 17% of black patients awaiting an organ transplant got one in 2015, compared with about 30% of white patients.

Chelsea’s accidental role as the literal and figurative face of black organ transplantation is likely to help chip away at those disparities. “Having a visible, tangible reference, especially for African Americans … is so needed,” says Marion Shuck, president of the Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation (AMAT). Sharing personal experiences publicly, Shuck says, could inspire potential donors with a clear example of a transplant’s positive impact. Though facial donation is rare, Chelsea’s story could encourage black Americans, and their families, to donate kidneys, livers or lungs, saving lives and reducing wait times across the country.

It took more than a year for Chelsea to get a second call—the one that would land him in a bed at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, receiving a new face that was a near perfect skin-color match, and that made him both the first African American to undergo a face transplant and, at 68, the oldest recipient ever. “Morning by morning, new versions [of me] unfold,” Chelsea said on the day he was discharged from the hospital in August, nearly a month after surgery. “[But] I feel like myself.”

Source: Times Magazine

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Nairaland / General / Re: A Lady Born With Two Veejays (vaginal Septum) Thought It Was Normal! by joedave(m): 1:43am On Oct 15, 2021
budaatum:
Sorry, couldn't find a photo. Found this though!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7599791/amp/Woman-TWO-vaginas-wombs-says-doctors-failed-spot-unusual-anatomy-birth.html

Her own case is even more extreme as it connects to the cervix. The initial lady has minor issue compared to this. undecided

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Business / $1.25m (Over N700m) Fortune Smiles On Local Fisherman As He Made Rare Discovery by joedave(m): 1:34am On Oct 15, 2021
A fisherman in Thailand became a millionaire overnight after he found a large chunk of Whale Vomit floating at Niyom beach in the province of Surat Thani.


Narong Phetcharaj usually earns about a few hundred dollars a month until he discovered the 30kg of ‘whale vomit’, also known as Ambergris which is highly valuable and sought-after.

News reported that on 4 October, Narong suspected that it could be valuable whale vomit as he had seen on television where it had the same waxy texture and appearance. He then took it to experts at the Prince of Songkla University to have it tested before it was revealed to be genuine ambergris.

Previously, ambergris pieces were sold for between $37,500 (RM15,6731) to $42,791 (RM178,844) per kilogram, giving Narong’s ambergris a value of up to $1.25 million (RM5.22 million) based on previous prices.

"None of the villagers has ever seen or touched a real whale ambergris before that’s why everybody was happy,” he said.

“I’m so excited I don’t know what to do. I plan to sell the ambergris as I’ve already received a certificate to prove that it’s real.”

“If I can get a good price, I’ll retire from working as a fisherman and throw a party for my friends.”

Ambergris is produced by sperm whales to ease the passage of large or sharp objects. When the whale vomits it out, it solidifies and floats on the surface of the ocean.

Although ambergris produces a foul smell at first, it develops a sweet and long-lasting fragrance once it dries out. This makes it a highly sought-after ingredient in the perfume industry.

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Nairaland / General / Re: A Lady Born With Two Veejays (vaginal Septum) Thought It Was Normal! by joedave(m): 12:58am On Oct 15, 2021
'Mum looked at me like "what?". At first, she said that there wasn't two holes and we argued for a little bit, and I was being really defensive.

'She then suggested that we go to the doctors. That's when I realised, she was being serious and that there really is not supposed to be two openings down there.'

When they met with doctors, Tee said they made her 'feel crazy' as they 'disregarded' everything she was telling them.

'The second doctor looked at it, then looked back at me and said, 'nah it's normal' and she sort of pushed us out the door,' she said.

'I left there somewhat flabbergasted. I was nuts thinking that I had two vaginas. I was starting to feel like I was going crazy. I was second guessing myself.'

As a teenager, Tee said she had absolutely no idea that it was unusual to use two tampons at the same time, as she assumed all women had two vaginal openings

Before her diagnosis, Tee aid she remembered the look on her mum's face when she plucked up the courage to ask her about how to use a tampon (Picture of her mum left and Tee right)

But she only discovered something wasn't right after she asked her mother 'which hole' a tampon needed to be inserted, which prompted an urgent doctor's visit (Tee pictured right as a schoolgirl with her friend Chantelle)


Not wanting to give up on finding answers, Tee decided to get a third opinion from a different doctor that referred her to a gynaecologist, who confirmed she did have two vaginal openings.

However, she warned that her double vagina would likely make sexual intercourse and giving birth difficult and potentially dangerous - so Tee underwent surgery to remove the septum at 17.

'My wall was too thick to be snipped out and was as long as a finger going right up to just before my cervix. Apparently, the vaginal septum is normal for babies in the womb, but it's supposed to dissolve,' she said.

'Mine just never dissolved. Mine was a bit thicker and longer than normal, which is why I had to get surgery.'

Tee - who's a high ropes instructor - said she found out that 'you could get someone stuck inside you during sexual intercourse, as the hole is half the size as normal'.

She warned that her double vagina would likely make sexual intercourse and giving birth difficult and potentially dangerous - so Tee underwent surgery to remove the septum at 17.


Since sharing her experiences on social media to raise awareness, Tee said many women have come forward revealing they are going through a similar condition

'It was freaking me out,' she said.

'My boyfriend at the time is my boyfriend now and he was fine when I told him. He said that we would just deal with it when the time came.'


'The craziest thing about posting it is the amount of girls who have commented saying they have similar problems. They didn't realise that it wasn't normal,' she said.

'I'm glad I'm not the only person. I honestly thought for a while there that maybe I was an idiot for not realising you weren't supposed to have two openings down there.

'But after posting a video about it, I've realised no one really knows that we weren't supposed to have two. It is something I'm not worried about anymore. That was me, now it's over and I'm good now.'

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Nairaland / General / A Lady Born With Two Veejays (vaginal Septum) Thought It Was Normal! by joedave(m): 12:49am On Oct 15, 2021
A young woman, Tee Bartlett, 24, born with TWO vaginas thought it was 'normal' to use two tampons every month for years, reveals how she finally found out something was wrong.


Tee Bartlett, from Hunter Valley, New South Wales, was born with two vaginas
She thought it was 'normal' to use two tampons every month before diagnosis
Tee told her mum about having two 'holes', prompting an urgent doctor's visit.
At the age of 16, Tee was finally diagnosed with a vaginal septum.

The young woman who was born with two vaginas revealed how she thought it was 'normal' to use two tampons every month before her diagnosis.

As a teenager, Tee Bartlett, from the Hunter Valley in New South Wales , said she had absolutely no idea that it was unusual to use two tampons at the same time, as she assumed all women had two vaginal openings.
But she only discovered something wasn't right after she asked her mother 'which hole' a tampon needed to be inserted, which prompted an urgent doctor's visit.

At the age of 16, Tee was finally diagnosed with a vaginal septum - a condition that happens when the female reproductive system doesn't fully develop, leaving a dividing wall of tissue in the vagina.


Tee Bartlett (pictured) who was born with two vaginas revealed how she thought it was 'normal' to use two tampons every month before her diagnosis. Her boyfriend Chris has always been supportive - and he was 'fine' when she told him about her rare condition (couple pictured together).

What is vaginal Septum?

A vaginal septum is a condition that happens when the vagina doesn't fully develop.

It leaves a dividing wall of tissue in the vagina that's not visible externally.

The wall of tissue can run vertically or horizontally, dividing the vagina into two sections. Many girls don't realise they have a vaginal septum until they reach puberty, when pain, discomfort, or an unusual menstrual flow sometimes signal the condition.

Others don't find out until they become sexually active and experience pain during intercourse. However, some women with a vaginal septum never have any symptoms.

Before her diagnosis, the now 24-year-old said she remembered the look on her mum's face when she plucked up the courage to ask her about how to use a tampon.

'I didn't really communicate with mum about awkward topics back then,' Tee said.

'One day, I was having a conversation with my best friend and mum, and I finally asked which hole a tampon was supposed to go in, the left or the right.

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Business / Re: You Can Only Have A Maximum Of $10,000 In Domicilary Account - Stanbic IBTC by joedave(m): 11:33pm On Oct 14, 2021
macjireh:

Can I receive $1million as an instant deposit

You can receive much more inasmuch as the fund is clean, you don't have worries.
Crime / Re: Nigerian Man In China Laments After Chip Was Inserted In Brain In Hospital by joedave(m): 4:12pm On Sep 29, 2021
Damn! Damn! Damn! I'm absolutely speechless. Things are happening. WTH is this?
Crime / Re: Food Concepts (chicken Republic) Wants To Tarnish My Brother's Life by joedave(m): 6:48pm On Sep 25, 2021
Thurmieee:


Thank you. The thread generated traffic almost 3000 views on it. Also a mod deleted a comment here in the first page,so that it didn't get the attention of the mods is not true. They just decided no to do anything to help. As you've said it's a lesson and we've learnt from it. May we not suffer for what we've not done.

Amen.
Crime / Re: Goodluck Esegi Beaten To Death By Police In Bayelsa (Graphic Photo) by joedave(m): 3:20pm On Sep 25, 2021
The beat keep getting louder day in day out on the clamour against security operatives brutality and often times unprovoked yet they are wantonly committing such nefarious act unperturbed.

A girl was shot in Ijesha lagos over a week ago by police. A female student was raped few days ago by police. Now this guy's death and many more abuses unreported or maybe reported but not effected by the appropriate authorities.

I think there should be more transparency and accountability on erring officers who have gone above board. Orderly dismissals and somewhat room trials aren't enough. At the end we never get to know how some of these cases end. SMH

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Crime / Re: Lagos Police Rescue Debtor Tied To A Stake Over N4.6m Debt by joedave(m): 1:59pm On Sep 25, 2021
Help2020:

What the creditor did was bad.But the man deserve no pity..I hate people who pay good with evil..How can somebody give you 4.5million and all you could say is you have the money and you don't want to pay?that's pure evil.. Tell me how the creditor will help next time..I'm sad for the creditor to be honest.

I appreciate when you pointed the creditor's wrong! Now we need to look in between and know if there had been a surety, collateral or any kind of security for the loan. If there are, those are the options the man should have towed.

And of course, he could have reported to police, if they will work on the petition or not is a case for another day. Two wrongs don't make a right. Some years ago, I lost a whopping sum to fraud related saga and made reports and all that to Police and EFCC, nothing came out of it. I had to move on with my life. Though it was challenging but I cannot take laws into my hands else I will have myself to blame. Mine was even a crime case BUT this issue here is DEBT so there's no reason whatsoever for the creditor to take that position.

That's my own take anyways.

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Crime / Re: Lagos Police Rescue Debtor Tied To A Stake Over N4.6m Debt by joedave(m): 1:50pm On Sep 25, 2021
ajl:


Then how will he get his money if the debtor die?

So you think it's by tying up the man that will make him to get his money. Supposing the man has some health complications already and he eventually died overnight? That's murder.

Never put law into your hands when aggrieved otherwise you will end up being the aggressor and accuse.
Crime / Re: Help Me My FB Account Hacked. by joedave(m): 8:12am On Sep 25, 2021
Your account just got hijacked. You may not be able to retrieve it again moreso when the fellow has changed the settings, primarily email and number.
It happened to me but mine came back after two years. It happened to my niece and the hijacker immediately started sending scam messages to all her friends and contacts on FB to pay money for spurious seminars and vocational trainings etc. We had to report to Facebook but they could do nothing. The guy changed her settings from phone to adding an email of his. It can be very painful.
Crime / Re: Lagos Police Rescue Debtor Tied Up By His Creditor Over Unpaid N4.6m Debt(video) by joedave(m): 7:46am On Sep 25, 2021
No matter the cause, he shouldn't have put law into his hands. Everyone is frustrated right now in Nigeria and ready to burst at the slight of provocation. Still it's no justification as this single act could have led to an ugly incidence that could have claimed the debtor's life. Main victim has unwittingly turned himself to the accuse as it goes.
Crime / Re: Food Concepts (chicken Republic) Wants To Tarnish My Brother's Life by joedave(m): 7:41am On Sep 25, 2021
Thurmieee:
I thought bringing this issue to this place would help.
After so many mentions of the mod no one tried to help. I used to think nairaland was really life touching......but when I needed help most nothing happened.
I know if it was about pussy and dick it'll surely hit the front page.
It just hurts that the real people that need help are ignored.
My brother has been released today on bail. After 2 weeks in remand.

Oh, that's a good thing to know. Thank God for his release. So how has the case gone?
Between, don't hit too much on the inability of getting expected response from NL. You equally could have been persistent on opening newer thread till it gets the traffic. Being said, give thanks to God and I believe what your brother has gone through is a learning process which will make him evolve better and extra careful in the workplace wherever he go. Tell him I said he should always watch his back and Pray.

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Crime / Re: Lagos Police Rescue Debtor Tied To A Stake Over N4.6m Debt by joedave(m): 7:18am On Sep 25, 2021
When you think you've seen it all in Nigeria!! Imagine what would have happened to that Man if the wife wasn't aware of his whereabout. This creditor may just eventually dump him in the Ebute Metta lagoon after exhausting every means of getting his debt unsuccessfully.

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Crime / Re: Bloodbath As Two Lawyers Exchange Blows At Gombe Magistrates Court by joedave(m): 7:09am On Sep 25, 2021
There's little or no sense of tolerance at the moment in Nigeria. Frustration is being vented at the least of provocation. Or how can one describe "Two Learned Colleagues" who where supposed to know better about law and decorum dishing out blows before a Judge in the hallowed chamber over disagreeable motions?

"O God of Creation, direct our noble course"....
Crime / Re: 6-Year-Old House Help's Facial Skin Cut & Flushed! (Disturbing Photos) by joedave(m): 2:17pm On Sep 24, 2021
Kajaard:
Where is that Future Is Female lady? She won't comment in this type of thread.

This is why I fear women. They can kill without remorse. Just imagine what she did to this innocent child undecided

Poverty is a disease.

Damn heartless. And people like this, pampers their own children like eggs that's if she's gotten one anyway. I wonder a six year old kid could have done to warrant this savagery.

Mynd44, Lalasticlala please help for justice sake! Move this to FP.

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Crime / Re: 6-Year-Old House Help's Facial Skin Cut & Flushed! (Disturbing Photos) by joedave(m): 2:13pm On Sep 24, 2021
BritishNaija:

Done. Let's hope the mod respond.

I will want to appeal to you guys not to just rely on Mods bringing this to FP in NL only. Try as much as getting a good fearless Lawyer or the office of OPD in your State. Then make more awareness on several medium even FB, God willing, the matter will garner the right attention and those in authority wade into this.

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Crime / Re: 6-Year-Old House Help's Facial Skin Cut & Flushed! (Disturbing Photos) by joedave(m): 1:40pm On Sep 24, 2021
[quote author=BritishNaija post=106127334]

Busy at work, just give me title dim fit and I will copy and rephrase it.[/q

The law must take it course.
Crime / Re: Picture Of The Police Officer Killed By Commercial Motorcyclists in Lagos State by joedave(m): 1:31pm On Sep 24, 2021
These criminals lynched an officer and a CSP for that matter. The market you just bought is sure bigger than what you can ever handle, that I'm sure of.

RIP CSP Abonde.
Crime / Re: 6-Year-Old House Help's Facial Skin Cut & Flushed! (Disturbing Photos) by joedave(m): 1:19pm On Sep 24, 2021
BritishNaija:
Please let this get to front page as the family is being threatened, thank you.

Op, check your topic again and rephrase it to have more comprehensive meaning so as to gain attention more..

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Crime / Re: 6-Year-Old House Help's Facial Skin Cut & Flushed! (Disturbing Photos) by joedave(m): 1:15pm On Sep 24, 2021
This type of barbarism shouldn't be allowed to go without being remedied. What a wicked world. That lady must be fished out. If you have her picture, please display and share on Twitter too. She must be brought to book.

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