morgellons
yesterday i read about morgellon’s disease at work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons) after jezebel posted an item about it on their website. then i read the five page article about it on the washingtonpost.com. then i searched it in google. that lasted until the end of my work day and when i got home i read the live discussion from the washingtonpost. then i looked for it on youtube.
then i couldn’t stop itching.
i seem to be morbidly obsessed with this new “condition.” morgellon’s is still undiagnosed, unresearched, painful, EXISTING and completely fucking creepy. mostly women complain of it, and doctors have been claiming the disease does not exist and solely consists of a paranoid mental state. BUT the consistent symptoms and evidence DISCREDITS these doctors and indicate that something far scarier is happening- people (again, mostly women) are being kept awake for days, itching uncontrollably, breaking out in lesions, rashes and hives, feeling bugs crawling under their skin, seeing bugs come out of their bodies, losing their hair, and weirdest of all the symptons, they are pulling “fibers” out of their skin.
these fibers are black, red, white and blue and when scientists analyzed them, were found to be an unrecognized substance. people are pulling these things off their skin, combing them out of their hair and picking them out of wounds. it is fucking crazy. i am so morbidly curious about these people, their symptoms and pretty much EVERYTHING about morgellons. bryan thinks that all the videos are cool, meanwhile i am freaking out.
the debate/situation boils down to this:
either there is a new disease out there causing these insane symptoms
or
a bunch of women went the same kind of crazy
i don’t know which i’d rather… new disease? BUT OMG WHAT IF I FUCKING CATCH IT? jfsidjhgfuirdkjehgjfdshfkslruew843~!