I Peeled My Skin To Reveal This

[sarothra]

OK, so I got your attention.

I didn't peel ALL my skin off, just enough to reveal most of one "critter".

Take it or leave it, here is my drawing of this "thing". A picture just would not reveal the details that this drawing reveals (I tried, and it just looked like a bloody mess). Anyway, I am about to be laughed at so go ahead...I'll laugh with you....because this is actually too horrific to believe.

This was the "form" on my wrist.

This didn't turn out good at all. Let me retry loading this drawing...

DON'T TRY THIS ONE - LOOK AT THE NEXT PIC INSTEAD.

[sarothra]

trying again

Ok, so there it is. It's about 3 inches from tip of "nose" to end of "tail" - the top I think is a mouth and the two larger circle things on the sides are the "eye sensors". I think this is some form of mutant nematode, like suggested by a scientist I forget the name of. The lesion is in the body of the "beast", and treating the lesion without "killing" the head and mouth area will not destroy it. I peeled my skin off the "head" area, using Miracle Foot Cream (I don't have DSP yet but am trying to order it).

There are fibers extending along the length of this thing, and especially from the eye sensors down the middle, toward the lesion.

There are two "dashes" things between the head and the lesion. I have heard someone describe these "dashes" as looking like something bit them.

Ok everybody can have a field day with me....

sar

[sarothra]

Here's another drawing...

I took some digital pictures and am just waiting for my battery to recharge. Will be able to upload them soon I hope... like in an hour or so...

My question is: has anyone else seen this form? or anything even remotely resembling what I'm talking about?

[Katinka]

Saro, could those fibers also be legs? You know, it some how reminds me of a parasitic wasp larvae. #941

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Perhaps they can help you identify it.

Kat

ps: I wasn't laughing at you, but I did find your picture kinda cute though....

[sarothra]

Smile and the world smiles with you. Cry and you cry alone...

Ah, so true.

This thing is a form laying on my skin. I can't "remove" it, but I could send bits and pieces somewhere. This one I turned to mush with zinc but I have some pics - I have to go buy a cord for the camera, sigh...technology...of course the cord for the Samsung doesn't fit the Sony.

You thought it was cute, really? I bet you say that to all the parasite artists...


sar

BTW, there's too many pics on that link you had...Please specify which number the pic is...

Oh, sorry, now I see it...901...I'll be right back. I couldn't tell by that pic...

[sarothra]

Look at the triangular shape - these are sensors --

Now he is kinda cute -- is he upside down?

OCELLI

ocellus noun, plural ocelli, adjective ocellate
1. Simple eyes, small extra eyes, usually situated on the top of the head. The cuticle covering the eye is thickened like a lens. Below the lens there is a layer of transparent cells, continuous with the adjacent epidermal cells. Most insects with complete metamorphosis (holometabolous) have three ocelli on top of the head, arranged in a triangle. In some groups, such as most lepidoptera, ocelli are absent (a condition called anocellate). In other groups, or only one or two are present. The presence or number of ocelli is helpful in differentiating some groups, such as the families of Megaloptera.
Larval forms of holometabolous insects usually have simple eyes on the sides of the head corresponding to the location of the compound eyes in the adult, and these are not are not structurally homologous with ocelli. Common entomological usage (1) is to call these "lateral ocelli", but a more specific term is stemmata (singular stemma), since they are not homologous with ocelli (2).

THE REASON I THINK OCELLI ARE IMPORTANT:

I see these formations on my skin, embedded, if you will, into my tissue -- many people have noted a worsening of symptoms at night. That would be consistent with a lifeform that has the ability to detect light and dark, which is what OCELLI are. (in my limited understanding of this term).

[Jo]

I think your drawings are helpful Sar. How wide do you think your worm is?

The 3 sensors of that hornet are simple eyes (ocelli), which many diptera have as an addition to their compound eyes (big honeycombe structures).

The filaments may be trachea (respiration tubes).

I've seen long worms from folks skin. here's one sample and I'll find the other.

Warning about these shots, they arent pretty (you need to scroll down):

Flickr: blaisefishco1998's Photostream
Jo xx

[sarothra]

The triangle - I know others have described the dots (freckles) that form a triangle.

I'm not saying we have wasps or hornets, etc. but the pics of ocelli I found are of wasps so far.

I have read that nematodes also have ocelli although I cannot find pics of those.

STEMMATA:

Stemmata

Stemmata (singular stemma, also referred to as lateral ocelli) are the only eyes of the larvae of several orders of insects (fleas, springtails, silverfish, and Strepsiptera). They have a similar form to ommatidia, the constituent elements of compound eyes: thus they may not be considered as simple eyes. Behind each lens lies a single cluster of photoreceptor cells, termed a retinula. Their lens is biconvex, and their body contains a vitreous or crystaline core. They may represent simplified compound eyes, reflected by their lateral position on the head. They are possessed by myriapods and some insect larvae.[12]

[Bee]

Horse Tapeworms are triangular and oval and can be 3 inches long. I seen one in the horse stall and picked it up with a baggie to identify it. It was white and the size of a palmetto bug, if you know what that is. It had two tenticles.If flopped like a fish.
Google Equine Tapeworms in images.

[Katinka]

Originally Posted by sarothra

Smile and the world smiles with you. Cry and you cry alone...

Ah, so true.

This thing is a form laying on my skin. I can't "remove" it, but I could send bits and pieces somewhere. This one I turned to mush with zinc but I have some pics - I have to go buy a cord for the camera, sigh...technology...of course the cord for the Samsung doesn't fit the Sony.

You thought it was cute, really? I bet you say that to all the parasite artists...


sar

BTW, there's too many pics on that link you had...Please specify which number the pic is...

Oh, sorry, now I see it...901...I'll be right back. I couldn't tell by that pic...

....pic #941