[Steve Frey]

Here is a partial quote from Nancy's thread dated May 6, 2007.

Lets say you go to the store and buy some peat
planters, say 24 pots in a tray. Each pot gets one white "bean". Now
stack each tray. Put 100 trays on top of each other stacked. This
represents the layering of a deep lesion that has been there for 10
years. All the peat is connected and saturated into the skin,beans
growing in individual pots. Somehow the entire unit is connected to
a blood source. And the whole unit has individual functions. It can
form a rim in seconds, it can create ooze that covers the
unit. I cannot get the entire lesion out in one session
with baking soda. Wish to God i could. The sides of it are soaked
into the facial skin, so i only deal with the inside of the lesion,
removing what the soda softens. Yet, the next day there is more to
remove, kind of like the movie...Ground Hog Day, been there done
that. Yet, progress is made. Often the stacks of
layers get folded over, or raised. Let say by soda session on day 5,
i find that the soda has leveled a side rim that was raised. On day
25, layer number 85, which was doubled over in the center gets
removed, thus alowing puckered skin to have more slack. On day 60,
following this imaginary example....layer number 90 has a fat bean
in one cup, larger than the rest. I wiggle it with tweezers, but it
is stuck solid. I stretch it with tweezers and it retracts, and
snaps back into the cup. It hurts to do anything with it. I put soda
on and let it do its job. By the next day....this larger bean is
sticking out more than the day before. The top of it is stretched
and limp. I wiggle it, but its hooked in deep and wont come out. I
put more soda on it. The next days session i try again. I wiggle it,
and it pops out. I see a deep hole in the magnifying mirror. The
hole looks empty, like an inverted cone. Suddenly blood fills the
entire lesion from that hole. It trickles over the edge of the
lesion. I catch the overflow with soda, the blood saturates the
soda. I remove it and put in more soda. I do this for an hour. Im
putting soda on other lesions, and keep checking on the trickle of
blood. This goes on for hour 2. Finally its done. What is it, and
what is done. I have no idea...im just "going with the flow". ONe
lesion i had on my chin tickled blood for 2 hours one session, and
the next day for 3 hours. Yeah...this is absolutely crazy, and maybe
a big mistake, and i am the fool, but ...alas, i commited to this
soda experiement. And this is what i have experienced with the
behavior of the inside of the lesion.
Finally the last layer of the lesion. I reached the bottom of one of
those today. I put a couple of beans under the microscope. At 200x
they just look like a clear blob, maybe a speck of bright red
inside. They lose the elongated shape quickly. The end that the
tweezers did not touch, often looks like it has a spray of fibers, a
tuft of something whitish clear. I cant tell the detail, would need
a more powerful scope. I put the bic lighter to one of them i was
holding in the tweezers. The tip balled up black, and the rest of it
turned orange. I have no idea what this is, or what that reaction
means.

I call as evidence deemed exhibit "B" the following excerpt;

Lets say you go to the store and buy some peat
planters, say 24 pots in a tray. Each pot gets one white "bean". Now
stack each tray. Put 100 trays on top of each other stacked. This
represents the layering of a deep lesion that has been there for 10
years.

What Nancy has described here very closely parallels the description of a mat-like colony of bryozoans.

Bryozoan colonies often grow in mat-like formations sometimes many layers deep.


I also call as evidence deemed exhibit "C" the following excerpt;

The end that the tweezers did not touch, often looks like it has a spray of fibers, a tuft of something whitish clear.

I believe that what she is describing here very closely parallels the bryozoan's lophophore.

Each zooid has a ring of tentacles or lophophore, which the animal can extend and retract through the orifice, as circumstances require, a bit like a 'Jack-in-the-Box', often with great speed. The lophophore may be either extended flower-like during feeding, or collapsed and completely withdrawn into the interior of the colony