Joey's shots

[Jo]

Hi,

Gazz inspired me to sort out some photos of things i've discovered in my bath water over the last 6 months.

First step for me was to buy a microcular - its a webcam that slots into the len tube of my kiddie scope.

I'm surprised and a bit yukked out by the results from today's 'photo shoot'. There's no blood or skin on these, just organisms...kind of...and fibres, white granules and specs. oh, and some slime for good measure. Some of them would feel at home on Marc's site I'd imagine.

If anyone can tell me more about these - that would be great - or if anyone's got similar productions, I'd love to see em.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23443895@N06/

Jo xx

[Jason]

Hey Jo,

Some amazing shots, how do you get these organisms onto a slide? Do you just pluck them out of the water some are so small it must be difficult.

Are you going to show them to your doc?

[carla]

Thoses are great photo's Jo.That morphed insect is the stuff of nightmares .
xx

[tcmgpt13]

Think the morphed insect resembles some whathehelminth has posted. Good pictures. I have seen some of the iridescent whatever it was (did not look like an insect) in a pocket behind a toe, more then one, just looked like part of a seahell in shape. No repeat since then, so I hope I am pushing out more and more of this. It looks as if that is happening anyway.

[hilly]

..Jo... Well done.. brilliant photos of some very familia creatures you must have a very good camera microscope.... I think I have seen most of those at some time or other in the last year...!! yukky... Milly x

[Jo]

Hi peeps,

Thanks for the comments.

[/quote]how do you get these organisms onto a slide? Do you just pluck them out of the water some are so small it must be difficult. Are you going to show them to your doc?[/quote]

I use a fine metal point to pick them up - samples tend to stick to it, then I roll them off on to the slide. Yes, I will email them to the doc.

The General hospital nearby has a great sample of a fully morphed flying insect that I watched leach out of my skin, after doing a double bath trick. The biology lab couldnt identify the species. When this result came back, that the arthropod had wings, my GP family doc decided that I must be delusional. The result took me by surprise too, I expected it to be collembola!

Thankfully the arthropod and biting stage seems to be over for me. I hope so. My heart goes out to anyone going through this right now.

Jo xx

[megluth72]

Jo,

What do you mean by a double bath trick? My "healed" lesion has spread to create three new ones only to reopen worse than ever. I'd love to be able to draw this stuff out of me.

[Jo]

Hi Meg,

Sorry to hear about your legions. The little ______s

When I had the insect phase sometimes I'd itch intensely straight after a bath. So I'd run a second hotter bath and jump back in and the little monsters sometimes came out of my hair follicles - I'd caught them off guard.

Not sure if it would work on the more primative organisms connected with legions...

Hope they dry up and disappear for good Do bryozoans need water to survive?

Jo xx

[Jo]

Hi,

I noticed today that my cat had a pysdo cat hair sticking out of his head. It was pale, dry, long with waves in it (He's a short black hair). So I pulled it out and it was heavily infected. It was just ONE hair...page one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23443895@N06/

I would like to thank Hovis for providing this sample.

Jo xx

(small print: No animals were hurt in the making of this shoot)

[Kritters]

hey guyz n galz,

All our photos have the blue strands, I think, as well as red (for me anyway).

Why can't we get a competent lab to tell us what the heck they are?

am I missing something?

???

Kritts