What I did on my summer vacation ... photographs of my friends

[dragonfly2]

ok still more worms bugs parasites WHATEVERS!

[dragonfly2]

I have seen so many colors of fibers!

[Andrew]

Hi,

Thank you for the warm welcome. It's comforting to not be alone anymore.

Answers to some of your questions:
Q: What did the good doctor say when shown the bug photos?
A: The first three all made the identical proclamation: "That's not a bug."

Q: How big is the bug in picture #4 (I assume you mean speciman56.jpg)?
A: About 1.5 mm long. Speciman7a is about 2 mm long, and was alive when it exited my body. I killed it on the microscope slide with isopropyl alchohol, but not before I observed it struggling to free itself from the fibers (visible on the left side of the photo) in which it's anterior legs were entwined (also clearly visible).

Q: Where / how did I find them?
A: Cook a couple of tablespoons of finely minced garlic in 1/2 cup of olive oil. Cook hot but don't burn the oil. Strain out the garlic and coat body with the oil once it has cooled a bit. Wait about 10 minutes and they start popping out of my skin, remaining on the surface stuck in the oil.

I have found a doctor who appears to be open-minded (he may be humoring me, I'm not sure yet). I don't show the bug pictures anymore, nor do I even mention bugs. I just describe the tangles of fibers that come out of my skin.

I took the Lyme diease antibody blood test. Result=Negative. I had him take a culture from a week-old wound on my finger through which a multitude of "That's not a bug"s had departed the day before. Results="Nothing unusual here." Thanks, Doc, for that concise editorialization. So I have asked him for the full lab report, which I will post when (if?) I get it. I asked him for antibiotics, but he stalled by saying let's wait for the Lyme antibody and skin culture results. I told him that if the results come back negative (what I expected), that I would be back to ask for antibiotics again, which I will.

That's all for now.

PS, I have lots more microscope photos, in case anybody is interested

[mmarsha]

Originally Posted by Andrew

Hi,

Thank you for the warm welcome. It's comforting to not be alone anymore.

Answers to some of your questions:
Q: What did the good doctor say when shown the bug photos?
A: The first three all made the identical proclamation: "That's not a bug."

Q: How big is the bug in picture #4 (I assume you mean speciman56.jpg)?
A: About 1.5 mm long. Speciman7a is about 2 mm long, and was alive when it exited my body. I killed it on the microscope slide with isopropyl alchohol, but not before I observed it struggling to free itself from the fibers (visible on the left side of the photo) in which it's anterior legs were entwined (also clearly visible).

Q: Where / how did I find them?
A: Cook a couple of tablespoons of finely minced garlic in 1/2 cup of olive oil. Cook hot but don't burn the oil. Strain out the garlic and coat body with the oil once it has cooled a bit. Wait about 10 minutes and they start popping out of my skin, remaining on the surface stuck in the oil.

I have found a doctor who appears to be open-minded (he may be humoring me, I'm not sure yet). I don't show the bug pictures anymore, nor do I even mention bugs. I just describe the tangles of fibers that come out of my skin.

I took the Lyme diease antibody blood test. Result=Negative. I had him take a culture from a week-old wound on my finger through which a multitude of "That's not a bug"s had departed the day before. Results="Nothing unusual here." Thanks, Doc, for that concise editorialization. So I have asked him for the full lab report, which I will post when (if?) I get it. I asked him for antibiotics, but he stalled by saying let's wait for the Lyme antibody and skin culture results. I told him that if the results come back negative (what I expected), that I would be back to ask for antibiotics again, which I will.

That's all for now.

PS, I have lots more microscope photos, in case anybody is interested

Hi andrew, I know what you mean about getting a doctor to listen. I have been going through the same thing for almost 2 years. I don't have a scope or even digital camera and am very interested in others photos as I am trying to still figure out what the bugs coming out of my skin are and are they simular to others who suspect morgellons? I am looking for the common denominator that i feel must be here. I have had some bugs that I got off my skin ID'ed by university entomologist but he claims that none of the insects that were ID'ed infest humans, and one more thing I think that DR. have been told by cdc or whoever it is that directs them on new disease and pathogens that Morgellons is a delusional paratosis because my doc who I thought was open minded typed in morgellons on his computer, he immediatley dismissed the morgellons thought that i tried to carefilly suggest to see what his thoughts would be and what ever he read on his little doctors only page made him not even willing to give morgellons another thought??? He immediatly changed subject??? It makes me wonder and the CDC is reporting to morgellons infected people that they are on this and investigating. I say horse manure, I think they are telling docs It is delusional. A figment of our poor demented minds instead of our body's being riddeled with unknown insects and pathogens??? I am new at this am frustrated that no one seems to be doing anything about this mysterious condition in our goverment. I am sorry, I have been venting my frustrations, but i do not understand the medical community and our goverment! Any way back to photo's which was why I initally started this post, yes I would like to see your photos!!! Please forgive my venting!
mmarsha

[Sadsack]

mmarsha -

Pretty much all of us have concluded that the CDC is verey much trying to suppress information about this condition, in part through disinformation leaked to doctors. Also by referring to it as a skin condition, thereby minimizing the extent of it.

The big question is WHY?? We can only speculate.

1. - They know full well what it is because they are intentionally involved in it's propagation. For depopulation? For control?

2. - They know completely what it is because it escaped from a lab and they can't recapture it. So they are stalling to buy time to try to figure out what to do.

3. - They have a pretty good idea of what it is but don't know where it came from (i.e., extraterrestrial, mad scientists experimenting, bioweapons, etc)

As far as I am concerned, the one possibilty that I don't believe for a NY second is that they are sincerely trying to figure this out and help us. (the CDC "study").

There are some within this crazy Morg world who seem to have turned their positions around in the last year and a half and now "support" the CDC. I suspect them of guilt through association.

SS

[weredIgo]

Hi Andrew,
Yea, Yea specimen. OK I get that they say it is not a bug, but I sure would like to know what lame answer they would give as to what they say it is. This makes me think of a cheating spouse caught in the act. DENY, DENY, DENY. When do you deny the obvious, when you have something to hide. And, when you have done something wrong.
I often wonder how the cdc will play this out. They have let us suffer, absolutely suffer and carried the debunking to the outer limits. I feel they have kept the lid on this for years by lying. I don't see how this can continue as more and more people come down with this and we are able to talk via the internet. So odd to me we have heard nothing yet on this study and not a peep out of anyone in the study with any pertinent information. What are they threatend with that people would totally obey. I swear something really stinks here.

Claudia

[jonsi]

weredigo wrote: "So odd to me we have heard nothing yet on this study and not a peep out of anyone in the study with any pertinent information."

I agree! I know people that have gone through studies with Wymore and OSU and they are still haven't been given any results of that study either!

Plug your nose! It's stinky

In the white light,
~jonsi

[Sadsack]

In all fairness, Wymore did write a statement about the status of the research he is conducting very recently. And considering that what he does, he does on his own time, we should be thanking him. He has a full time job as a professor at the medical school at OSU, and a family.

If you want more details, with pictures, etc, spring for $30 and get the DVDs of the Austin conference. They are available on the Charles Holman Foundation website.

Your consternation should be directed at the CDC - THEY are the ones who are charged with tracking and analyzing diseases in this country, and paid by our tax dollars.

And what is WHO doing, now that this thing is in 50 other countries??

SS

[weredIgo]

Hi Guys,
I was talking CDC. I just don't understand. Whats so hard. If you truly have morgellons like I know I do, then it means symptoms, sores, skin matches the pictures put out there and that we are dealing with the same (pretty much) problems physcally and mentally. From what I read we are all able to relate. All the time. Now, get 10 people with these symptoms and take some blood,take some spinal fluid,take a skin scraping,take a deep biopsy. Now maybe all 10 will not have the same thing, but I bet most will. They have either seen this infection, organism,fungus,bug before or they haven't. What is so difficult.
I search the web day after day after day after day........ trying to match up what I see. Like all of you I in the end get nowhere. Today I have no more answers than Aug.2004 when this all started. I'm in a place now of being so physically and mentally worn down, that lately I'm just empty. I will keep looking but I'm so disappointed. We are not all mental, there is something terribly wrong here. WHY WON'T THEY HELP US!
I am greatful for Dr. Wymore and the others, but there seems to be something odd about that angle too.

C

[Andrew]

The "full lab report" was delivered to me by my generous, concerned, and caring Doctor. I include it here for the permanent record.

RE: Skin culture resultsPrinter-friendly version
To:
Andrew
From:
BECK BERGGREN SODERBERG MD
Received:
8/3/09 6:48 AM
Here you go:
CULTURE, MISCELLANEOUS Collection Date: 7/20/2009 kp.org: Shared Final result
Component Value
ROUTINE BACTERIAL CULTURE RESULT Final Report
RARE GROWTH MIXED SKIN FLORA ISOLATED
Regards,
Beck Soderberg MD [/i][/i]

Am I missing something here? When did a full lab report omit naming the growing medium, the conditions and duration of the culture, and oh-my-god ...the scientific names of the bacteria that were grown out and in what numbers.

Was my request ambiguous, or is this really not the "full lab report"?

Does anybody know what the F this means?

And now, for your viewing pleasure, some more photos of my friends: