Let’s take a look at the story of a little hero who managed to overcome a big injury to his body. A black-eyed boy from Colombia 8-year-old Didier Montalvo from Colombia suffered from a rare disease known as congenital melanocytic nevus, which is a large birthmark on his body.
The boy’s birthmark became so large that by the age of six it covered his entire chest, like a mole, for which he was nicknamed “the mole-boy”. A rare birth defect — a congenital melanocytic nevus — occurs in about 1 in 20,000 newborns, but a British surgeon who volunteered to treat and operate the child described Didier’s condition as the worst he had ever seen.
Didier’s life was seriously affected by the rash, which covered more than half of his body, both because of the painful itching of the skin, and because it significantly reduced the child’s self-esteem. The inhabitants of Khlonchik’s native village in rural Colombia in South America avoided him and his family, and his mother once even said that it was all her fault because she had seen a solar eclipse during pregnancy.
The family was too poor to spend on an operation, but the boy’s life changed when his touching story was published in the local newspaper, and a whole stream of donations poured in. After a long wait, the boy’s family finally took him to a military hospital, where he underwent a two-hour operation, during which the tumor was permanently removed.
After the operation, the buried khlonchik restored the reporter:
“I’m looking forward to being able to go out in the sun shirtless and catch up with my friends.”
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