"I looked up and saw myself, and I thought I was going to die," says Calvino Inman the 15-year-old from Rockwood, Tennessee. His eyes were streaming tears of blood.
Dr. Barrett G. Haik, director of the University of Tennessee's Hamilton Eye Institute, says there is an answer, sort of. He says "crying blood," a condition called haemolacria, is common in people who have experienced extreme trauma or who have recently had a serious head injury. But a case such as Inman's is still a medical mystery. "What's really rare is to have a child like this," Haik says. "Only once every several years do you see someone with no obvious cause."
According to experts, between February 1992 and January 2003 only four cases of “crying blood” were recorded
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