Posted on 05/12/2006 12:04:31 PM PDT by hattend
LOL, I have not been called a whippersnapper in a while, I rather LIKE it! :)
Finally here. Been pretty sick so haven't been on much.
"If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.
Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.
"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who treats a majority of these patients.
Patients get lesions that never heal.
"Sometimes little black specks that come out of the lesions and sometimes little fibers," said Stephanie Bailey, Morgellons patient.
Patients say that's the worst symptom strange fibers that pop out of your skin in different colors.
"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful," said Lisa Wilson, whose son Travis had Morgellon's disease."
ICK!
me too!
sorry kiddo..hope that you're feeling better.
That is just nasty.
Hopefully I will feel better soon.
It is, isn't it?
WTH? Sounds like that movie where the guy turned into a fly. Yuck!
Lordy, that is the most horrible sounding thing. Yuck.
You don't have any fibers coming out of you do you?
LOL. I dunno. My kidney infection is worse then labor. I could have an alien developing in there.
Wonder where these people are catching this from?
one theory says that it comes from contaminated bottled water. If that's the case, it sounds like a parasite. We used to get some delightful parasites in South Africa, as I recall...
Ruh Roh! Cranberry juice always works for me.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/14566103.htm
Local kid, now one of yours!
Wouldn't it just figure that Specter is involved. Wow! Never knew that! He's really old! LOL
Arlen Specter screws up everything he touches.
Why is he still in Congress after 43 years?
Whoopie coming up, guess I'm headed over to Medved. Give me a ping when she's gone.
Pleased they got rid of Brazelton..he's useless. Sorry to see Bowen go on the DL...catching well and hitting a storm.
been drinking it. Water too and meds. Pain has eased up. I must have had it for a very long time and didn't know it. I have arthritis in my spine, so my back always hurts, sometimes more then other times. This was the worst. Had a cat scan for kidney stones, and it came out clear.
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