Cryptostrongylus Pulmoni - A new kind of Nematode

[Kritters]

Hey Jo,
Drat! I couldn't open your link to your photo. When I went to the homepage the only photos I saw were that of the town.
xo
Kritts

[Jo]

Yes - dont you think THAT TOWN looked like a marine nematode...huh..huh??

ok link fixed

thanks for letting me know Kritty

Jo xxx

[Griffin]

Hi Jo

Can't PM you yet as I am new

So much for the long message I just typed !

[Kritters]

That town looked JUST LIKE a NEMATODE!!! OMG! ;-)

Joey.....I have something under the new scope right now just a-waitin for me to get the camera downloaded, which it won't. My new laptop has vista and I'm guessing vista sucks so I just picked up my old laptop that has XP to see if that was the problem. This is driving me outta my gourd.

xo
Kritts

[Jo]

Sorry Griffin

I will....PM you and then you can email me, k?

Yo Kritts - yeh, load your software on XP - sounds like a plan. I need to see what you've landed in your net!

Joey xxx

[Kritters]

Jo,
I began to read through your posts again regarding this Cryptostrongylus (I wonder if that's what Superman brought from Crypton?) anyway, I got a jolt from reading this and think it's a job for.............SAFREYMAN!!!!!! to give his thoughts. Where is he, anyway?

From Toxicworm.com discussing the makeup of the blue fibers:

“Like many deep blue substances occurring in nature (as is the case with blue bottle jelly fish, or psylocibin occuring in 'magic' mushrooms), this deep blue liquid pigment may well be representing a powerful toxin that breaks open and is released when the parasite is destroyed (perhaps as a defensive mechanisim?).”
“…In addition to this, identifying long blue objects with consistently well defined ‘finger-like' appendages at one end by examining coloured lint from various fibres has proven a difficult task…..”
Note from self: if they watched the ‘finger-like appendages at the end under a scope, they would either see them grow (in the case of a living organism) or not grow (in the case of lint) duhh.

The Blue Bottle Jellyfish:

Bluebottle Jellyfish

"If a tentacle is put under the microscope you will see that it looks like a long string of barbed hooks, which explains the ability of the tentacle to attach."

Stop the music. I have noticed a string with what looks like barbs going along it in perfect order within my fiberballs, but just the last time. Prior to this, I put what I thought was a feather that floated by me under the scope and saw a complete succession of this string of barbed hooks and was told it was a feather. It could have been. But there was no feather in my last sample of fuzzball fibers.

"This jellyfish is actually made up of zooids. The blue bottle is not a single organism, but made up of a number of zooids. "

“The blue bottles colour can range from a blue to a pink hue, with a transluscent body.”

Darn, I had this whole thing colored and highlighted and font changed to be more expressive, but nothing shows up here on the post. DAMN.

KRITTS

[Jo]

Hi Kritts,

Thats all really interesting. Some of the girls on Lymebusters are seeing feather type things come out of their skin. Whats that all about?

Great info on the jellyfish and barbed hooks. Now thats what I call collective intelligence - zooids all clubbin together to look like a single organism.

Steve knows about Crypto. He's working hard piecing bits together - lots of work on bacterias and genomes re sponge.

About Kerseys comments, I think he'd photod the cuticles of Crypto, with the appendages. These shed skins wouldnt grow hey.

ok, keep truckin

Jo xxxxx

[Kritters]

Well, Jo.... I'll have to mosie over to the Lymebusters site and check that out. Picture something that looks kinda like this: ->->->->->-> only on a solid line. What struck me on that blue bottle jellyfish was that the tentacles are colored in variations of blue to pink and translucent, which is what my fibers are. I realize that could be the color combo of just about any marine life. All I can do is focus on something I read, one thing at a time, and see if/how it fits. Two different things I'm talking about here also with the feather and the colored fibers. I had thought earlier on that the feather pillows I (we all) get from China (where ALL of them are made) could have been contaminated with some organism. I had dismissed that idea, but it's still in the back of my mind since birds carry so many parasites and we don't give a rat's a s s about checking for diseases at our shores or theirs.

When I find out what Morgellons is and if it is, in fact, what I have, I'll gladly stop my researching. It's really not fun.

Kritts

[Griffin]

Originally Posted by Jo

Really, the moment I saw the Gripper - it just really looked like it belonged in the sea.

Perhaps it is some kind of Jaynesian* bicameral human parasite from before we emerged from the sea?

*/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Jaynes

[An8e1a]

When I went to my regular doctor in 1991 to see what was up with the skin rash, he took blood and noted that my white count was way up, so my immune system was working REEEEL well.

Additionally, my mother and I contracted it within a matter of hours at the same exact time. We never spent time together (because frankly I couldn't stand her) but one afternoon she talked me into taking her somewhere, and it took all afternoon. By the time we got back to my house we both had a singular itchy whitehead that resulted in the full blown rash over the next two weeks.

--Angie