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Saffron Otter & Laura Sharman

Woman's childhood bumps were early signs of rare condition 'turning her body to bone'

A brave woman has to wear nappies on nights out due to a rare bone disease which has locked parts of her body together.

Rachel Winnard, 37, can no longer leave the house without her commode or nappies as she is not able to go to the toilet without help.

She is one of up to just 80 people in the UK with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) which is so rare that the medical trials lack funding.

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