Tyrone Bowd with his mum Tanya Bowd at their property at Willowbank, near Ipswich in Queensland. Source: News Limited
Wesley Warren Junior's battle with a rare medical condition makes for uncomfortable viewing. Courtesy: Channel Seven
TYRONE Bowd carries a burden no young man should.
His condition, scrotal lymphoedema, makes his scrotum swell, growing bigger than a watermelon and reaching his knees.
This puts his life at risk with infections that make his temperature soar, his heart race and his body turn septic.
Tyrone suffers from scrotal oedema. Source: News Limited
And it seems to be a medical curiosity in this country, putting him beyond the expertise of 100 Australian doctors.
Doco grabs ratings but draws critics
An Ipswich Hospital urologist told Ms Bowd she would be signing her son's life away by attempting reconstructive surgery here.
Tyrone's testicles are now the size of coconuts and growing by the day - and it could be a death sentence unless he has surgery in the US. Source: News Limited
It was a revelation for Ms Bowd was finding the story of Wesley Warren Jr, the US man whose self-described ordeal as "a living freak show" was detailed in the UK Channel 4 documentary The Man with the 10 Stone Testicles.
Click here to read more about the only man who can help Tyrone, and the young man's heartbreaking words to his mother as he begged for help.
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