Posted on 02/08/2005 7:29:16 AM PST by Lee Heggy
SAUSALITO -- Is an unknown disease hitting the Bay Area or is it just a case of mass delusion? If you ask intensive care nurse Cindy Casey she'll tell you that the mystery disease is very real and very painful.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxreno.com ...
4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
You really have to wonder about these physicians. Patients complain about lesions and fibers. A routine exam would should that they have lesions and fibers. Why would you accuse them of being mentally ill?
It's not as if they didn't have easily definable symptoms. It's not just, "Doctor, I have this mysterious pain, I don't quite know where it is."
Eeewh! Thats awful! What a nightmare! Like something out of a Lovecraft story.
Well, there is mass delusion in the Bay Area - it's called liberalism. This sounds like an actual medical problem, though.
Thanks for the link. Scary stuff.
Someone I know suffered the exact same symptoms in the late 1970s in the SF Bay Area. The woman had lesions primarily beginning in her ankles, feet, and began spreading upwards. Her ankles swelled massively. As the "disease" progressed, her joints stiffened and the pain was excruciating. Her disease was treated with acetominophin. Doctors ultimately removed the woman's tonsils -- the woman had been experiencing a minimum of 5 major sore throats (strep, strep, tonsilitus) per year for prior 3 years. Results indicated the tonsils were not repelling infection but rather containing and reinjecting infection into her body. The woman has had no recurrences since then. The doctors labelled the disease "erythema nodosum".
However, in the years after the woman's outbreak, "lyme" disease was "discovered". The woman wondered whether in fact she had had Lyme disease not yet discovered. The woman did a great deal of hiking, backpacking. However, upon more careful study, while the symptoms are similar to Lyme disease, there are parts that do not match up at all. Maybe the doctors were right in that it was related to the tonsils or even antibiotic overdose. Were it "lyme" one would suspect the numbers of infected people to be higher. My two cents.
What is a fiber? I know what a lesion is, but I don't think I've ever seen a fiber.
Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."
Mystery Illness Bump
Hair-like filiments that grow under the skin and then protrude outside the surface where they cause leisions. Go to the link and look at the pictures...but not while eating.
Lyme disease is a media promoted disease, primarily of NY and CT women confined to offices and needing something to write about.
Interesting!
Like 'Multiple Chemical Sensitivity', Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia and Gulf War Syndrome.
Mysterious symptoms that vary from patient to patient. No tests that can detect it.....
Just another excuse for the whiners to whine.
Lyme seems to be blamed first in these "mystery diseases". My doc at first thought that's what I had, when in fact I have Crohn's Disease.
Yep. Lyme Disease--it's not just a disease, it's a hobby!
PLUM ISLAND
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.