A lot of people say they want to be tall, especially men, and a few women. Trust me, it's not all it's cracked up to be. My name is Alexandra DesChamps Nimbakade and I suffer from Gigantism. Women with gigantism aren't as rare as people think. I'm seven feet two inches tall, and it's only thanks to a special hormonal treatment that I stopped growing. I thank heaven for that. I have long black hair, brown eyes and light bronze skin. I was born in the City of Edmonton, Alberta, to a French Canadian mother and Ojibwe Indian father.
My parents, Rebecca DesChamps and Alexander Nimbakade ( it means hunger in the Ojibwe language ) are both of average height so we're not sure where my great height comes from. I study business administration at the University of Calgary and these days, life is alright. Things are finally getting back to normal, whatever normal is for people like me. I look forward to graduating from my program at the end of year. After graduating from university I want to travel. I've got a longing to see the world, to go far and experience new things. I've lived my whole life in the province of Alberta and although I love it, I know there's more to the world than what I know.
What do I mean by that? I am twenty two years old and would you believe it if I were to tell you that I've never had sex? Yes indeed. I've been somewhat busy with numerous medical treatments, trips around the world to meet with strange doctors, and things of that nature. Sex kind of took a backseat to these more urgent matters. People have died from gigantism. It's simply not natural for a person to keep growing indefinitely. Eventually their bodies give out and they perish. I've seen it happen to quite a few men and women from around the world who suffer from this condition. That's why I felt like I gained a new lease on life when the hormonal treatments worked and I stopped growing. Now I can finally live my life!
The University of Calgary is a fascinating place, and most of the students and professors who know me are friendly and easygoing. It's one of the few places in this world where I feel accepted. I am a proud member of the Native Students Association, which includes Metis, Aboriginals and others. As the daughter of a white woman who married a Native man, I am considered different by the other members of the Association but they accept me. I am also a member of the Women In Business and Technology Club, which promotes the development and success of women in typically male-dominated fields like business management, computer science and engineering. As you can imagine, I keep busy. Oh, and I'm also fairly active in my church, First Hope Baptist Church. The pastor, Bernard Jones, is a very decent and affable man. He emigrated to the province of Alberta from the island of Jamaica in the 1980s, married a white lady named Heather Covington and had two sons by her, Jonathan and Thomas. Pastor Jones is one of the best people I know. I never thought that a person who didn't suffer from female gigantism could understand my plight but this stocky, silver-haired, dark-skinned man from the Caribbean understood all too well how society treated anyone different. As a black man in redneck Alberta, life isn't always kind to him.
I've got a major crush on the good pastor's eldest son, Thomas. You've got to see him. The guy is beyond hot. Six feet seven inches tall, broad-shouldered and muscular, this biracial hunk with caramel skin, wavy black hair and green eyes plays on the men's rugby squad for our university. Tall, sexy and intelligent, he's always had women flocking to him. Even at our church, the girls are always chasing him. Thomas and I have been friends for years. We've got a lot in common, underneath it all. We're both the offspring of minority men who married white women, and we are also visible minorities in Alberta, one of the toughest regions of Canada.