Reliving the event (also called re-experiencing symptoms). You may have bad memories or nightmares. You even may feel like you're going through the event again. This is called a flashback. Avoiding situations that remind you of the event. You may try to avoid situations or people that trigger memories of the traumatic event.
He did not have NF. Roy Lee Rocky Dennis. Birth: Dec. 4, 1961. Death: Oct. 4, 1978. He was born with the rare disease, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, which causes calcium to accumulate on the skull and makes the head grow to twice its normal size.
In the film, ``Mask,`` Cher was playing Rusty Dennis Mason. Eric Stolz played the role of teenager Rocky Dennis, an ugly duckling who wouldn`t live to become a swan, a boy who suffered a fatal congenital disease so rare that only six other cases have ever been reported. Doctors told his mother he`d be blind, mentally retarded and dead by the time he was 7.