The parents of Shauna Rae, a young American, discovered that she had a brain tumor at 6 months. Aged 22 today, she is trapped in the body of an 8-year-old girl. This growth disorder is an adverse effect of his cancer treatment.
- The side effects of chemotherapy vary depending on the drugs used, the dosages and the person’s body.
- After this cancer treatment, patients may suffer from nausea, muscle pain, menstrual cycle disorders, diarrhea, hair loss, fatigue or even heart problems.
“If you look at me, you’ll think I’m a little girl, doing all sorts of fun things my age with my family. But in reality, I’m a 22-year-old woman locked in the body of an 8-year-old child. years”. So says Shauna Rae, an American from Pennsylvania, in reality tv trailer dedicated to its history and its daily life, broadcast on the channel TLC. In the show, she explains why, at her current age, she is 117 centimeters tall.
“My bones have remained welded”
“Shauna was 6 months old when we found out she had brain cancer,” says his mother. To treat his tumor, the doctors suggested that they perform chemotherapy. After resorting to this treatment, she managed to win the battle against the disease, but she stopped growing. The practitioners told her that she would remain small all her life. It is “an unpleasant side effect of chemotherapy. My pituitary gland (a small gland in the back of the brain that produces growth hormone) had become almost totally inactive. My bones were stuck together”, develops the twentieth.
“I am still single”
Even though Shauna Rae looks like a little girl, she wants to be treated like an adult. Problem: she is sometimes faced with a few remarks, for example: “kids can’t come to the bar” Where “there is an age requirement”. When she wanted to get a tattoo, the tattoo artist asked her how old she was. It is also difficult for her to find love. On a first date, a young man thought she was leading him on. “I’m still single. Because of my stature. (…) I find it quite scary to put my profile on dating apps, but sometimes you have to take risks to be happy”, she says on the show.
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