I should like to recognize every medical and academic professional,
friend, and family member who supported a loved one reporting Morgellons
symptoms. As the personal accounts of MD sufferers are replete with
references to extreme isolation, ridicule, and suicide, I'm sure your
support has made a difference beyond words. For those who risked or lost
professional reputations, licenses, or social status in their quest to
alleviate the suffering of others - you have my deepest admiration and
respect. I am humbled by your courage and indebted to your selfless
pursuit of the truth.
To the affected, those
who have lost skin, teeth, hair, nails, balance, sleep, friends, and
memories, stay strong. You have many supporters, across the country and
world, who want to see you well. Feel free to use this as you wish.
For
those professionals who persist in believing in a purely psychological
origin of the symptoms, talk to your peers at the universities or
clinicians mentioned in the journal article links - arrange a viewing of
slides, examine their photographs, discuss pathologies. They have
little to gain and everything to lose by taking their position. They,
like you, took an interest in science to pursue truth and knowledge.
Please look at the recent research on biofilm and intracellular invasion
capabilities of bacteria, as well as the relative effectiveness of
antibiotics on them. Juxtapose the rates of serological testing failure,
as verified by PCR (DNA) testing with the treatment protocols which
rely on them. Compare the symptoms with other well established skin
disorders of unknown etiology. Consider my explanations. Our questions
are better answered through methodological inquiry.
Finally,
if you're unconvinced, take my personal challenge. Fly out to California and visit me. It's harder for me to get around, but we can hang out
(in public too, if you don't mind the way I look and move now) and when I get a major relapse, you
can do the extractions personally - as many fibrous souvenirs as you
want. One requirement: we video the whole thing, use mutually agreed upon laboratories, and we post the results online. Your reputation against mine.
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