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Morgellons

Author : Ginger Savely

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Page : 383 pages

File Size : 37,90 MB

Release : 2016-11-03

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ISBN : 9780997920017

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"We have come a long way against great odds on our journey to legitimize Morgellons disease. Dr. Ginger Savely paved the earliest path on the rockiest road to make this progress possible. This book provides long-awaited answers to the vital questions being posed by thousands of patients and clinicians about this unthinkable disease. In reading Dr. Savely's poignant narrative you will learn to separate fact from myth and rumor from reality. This book will be a valuable resource for Morgellons patients and their families and friends and will serve as a guide for health care providers who are open-minded and committed to the health of their patients". From the Foreword by Cindy Casey, RN, Director of the Charles E. Holman Morgellons Disease Foundation



Morgellon's Syndrome

Author : David Conroy

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 10,15 MB

Release : 2016-04-19

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1439843643

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This book demonstrates evidence of a new microorganism infecting a person complaining of a dermopathy and fibers spontaneously exiting the dermis who was diagnosed with delusional parasitosis. The organism is likely a fungus that lives beneath the epidermis with the ability to infect common fibers including cotton, feathers and hair follicles.



Morgellons

Author : Commander X

Publisher : Inner Light-Global Communications

Page : 56 pages

File Size : 43,48 MB

Release : 2016-09-19

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ISBN : 9781606112267

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MORGELLONS, THE FIBER DISEASE...DOCTORS ARE QUICK TO SAY THAT THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM THIS BIZARRE DISEASE ARE DELUSIONAL, BUT ITS VICTIMS KNOW IT IS HORRIFYINGLY REAL! The victims say "It feels like bugs are crawling under their skin!" It has struck all across the globe with horrifying symptoms that seem to be ripped straight from the pages of a horror novel. The disease is called Morgellons, and it seems to have appeared out of nowhere and is rapidly spreading with a speed and ferocity that has left its victims shocked and helpless. Those who have contracted Morgellons complain of the same symptoms, yet doctors insist that the disease is actually the product of a mentally unbalanced mind. Sufferers first notice a strange feeling as if bugs are crawling and biting just under their skin. More terrifying are the weird sores that sprout thread-like fibers that almost seem to be alive. Tests reveal that the mysterious fibers infects every part of the body, skin, muscle, bone, even the brain. Those unlucky enough to have caught Morgellons are left helpless, ignored, and worse yet, labeled with the stigma of mental illness to explain away their sickness. Even the famous Mayo Clinic has announced that Morgellons is not real and those who suffer from its symptoms should be ignored because it is ALL IN THEIR HEADS! Nevertheless, the authors of this book know that Morgellons is all too real, only the true causes and origins of this disease remain shrouded in mystery. RIGHT NOW WE ONLY HAVE THEORIES ON WHAT MORGELLONS ACTUALLY IS: * Is it a natural disease that has been with us all along? * Is it a man-made disease that has somehow escaped from a lab? * Is it biological warfare, nanotechnology, or a terrorist attack? * Is it an extraterrestrial pathogen that has managed to root itself upon planet Earth after traveling inconceivable distances from outer space? The authors of this book are not afraid to ask the tough questions about Morgellons, as they examine all theories and facts that are currently available about this mysterious ailment. Updated in 2011, no stone is left unturned in the attempt to find out what is really going on with those who suffer from Morgellons. Even though most doctors have turned their backs on Morgellons victims, there is hope that the facts about this mystifying disease will soon be discovered and effective, permanent treatments will become available to stop the rampage of the Morgellons horror.



Everything I Have Is Yours

Author : Eleanor Henderson

Publisher : Flatiron Books

Page : 329 pages

File Size : 48,17 MB

Release : 2021-08-10

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1250787955

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 • From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson comes a turbulent love story meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author’s twenty-year marriage defined by her husband’s chronic illness—and a testament to the endurance of love Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record stored—older, experienced, and irresistibly charming. Escaping the clichés of fleeting young love, their summer romance bloomed into a relationship that survived college and culminated in a marriage and two children. From the outside looking in, their life had all the trappings of what most would consider a success story. But, as in any marriage, things weren’t always as they seemed. On top of the typical stresses of parenting, money, and work, there were the untended wounds of depression, addiction, and childhood trauma. And then one day, out of nowhere: a rash appeared on Aaron’s arms. Soon, it had morphed into painful lesions covering his body. Eleanor was as baffled as the doctors. There was no obvious diagnosis, let alone a cure. And as years passed and the lesions gave way to Aaron’s increasingly disturbed concerns about the source of his sickness, the husband she loved seemed to unravel before her eyes. A new fissure ruptured in their marriage, and new questions piled onto old ones: Where does physical illness end and mental illness begin? Where does one person end and another begin? And how do we exist alongside someone else’s suffering? Emotional, intimate, and at times agonizing, Everything I Have Is Yours tells the story of a marriage tested by powerful forces outside both partners’ control. It’s not only a memoir of a wife’s tireless quest to heal her husband, but also one that asks just what it means to accept someone as they are.



Health Humanities Reader

Author : Therese Jones

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 742 pages

File Size : 28,36 MB

Release : 2014-08-28

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 081357367X

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Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field—and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection’s contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences. With warmth and humor, critical acumen and ethical insight, Health Humanities Reader truly humanizes the field of medicine. Its accessible language and broad scope offers something for everyone from the experienced medical professional to a reader interested in health and illness.



How to Get Your Life Back from Morgellons and Other Skin Parasites

Author : Richard L. Kuhns

Publisher : CreateSpace

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 41,73 MB

Release : 2012-04-04

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 9781475010527

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Morgellons and other itchy skin parasites can literally destroy your life. They are a life changing event which leads some to suicide. Yet, even though the medical community still doesn't acknowledge most of them or know how to deal with them, with recent modern advances made in the last year or so, you can take your life back to normal or near normal again. A special diet, the King Diet, has been discovered that greatly diminishes the symptoms. Diet along with bathing, environmental controls, and various supplements and medications can bring life back to being worth living once again. This book, written by an ex sufferer of skin parasites, is the most comprehensive resource you will find regarding Morgellons, Collembola, Strongyloides, and skin fungus. You will even learn how to order in restaurants without feeling like a leper.



The Empathy Exams

Author : Leslie Jamison

Publisher : Graywolf Press

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 24,38 MB

Release : 2014-04-01

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 1555970885

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From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others'—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.



Practical Psychodermatology

Author : Anthony Bewley

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 298 pages

File Size : 19,85 MB

Release : 2014-05-05

Category : Medical

ISBN : 111856068X

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Skin disease can be more than skin deep Our skin is one of the first things people notice about us. Blemishes, rashes, dry, flaky skin – all these can breed insecurity, even suicidality, even though the basic skin condition is relatively benign. Skin disease can lead to psychiatric disturbance. But symptoms of skin disease can also indicate psychological disturbance. Scratching, scarring, bleeding, rashes. These skin disturbances can be the result of psychiatric disease. How do you help a dermatological patient with a psychological reaction? How do you differentiate psychological causes from true skin disease? These are challenges that ask dermatologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other health care specialists to collaborate. Practical Psychodermatology provides a simple, comprehensive, practical and up-to-date guide for the management of patients with psychocutaneous disease. Edited by dermatologists and psychiatrists to ensure it as relevant to both specialties it covers: History and examination Assessment and risk management Psychiatric aspects of dermatological disease Dermatological aspects of psychiatric disease Management and treatment The international and multi-specialty approach of Practical Psychodermatology provides a unique toolkit for dermatologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other health care specialists needing to care for patients whose suffering is more than skin deep.



Dermatology Made Easy

Author : Amanda Oakley

Publisher : Scion Publishing Ltd

Page : 438 pages

File Size : 30,82 MB

Release : 2017-05-06

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1911510118

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A concise overview of the common dermatological conditions most likely to present in general medicine From reviews: "... a perfect solution to the constant struggle that dermatology diagnosis presents to primary care physicians and other providers... This well-formatted book covers a vast array of topics ranging from common to rare skin disorders. The pictures are immensely helpful in the understanding of various skin rashes...." Fam Med 2019;51(5):451–452. “... easy to read and informative. One cannot emphasise enough the quality and comprehensive nature of the photographic content.... As someone who was interested in dermatology even as a medical student my only regret is that this book was not around when I was a student as it would have very adequately guided me into my beloved subspecialty.” Ulster Med J 2017;86(3):1–1. “The introduction outlines dermatological conditions by symptom, morphology and body site, providing an excellent index prior to delving into greater detail in the following chapters. The logical approach and level of detail make this text perfect for medical students, interns/residents, primary care physicians and other specialists who wish to quickly identify differential diagnoses or refresh their knowledge of dermatological conditions.” A Lecturer in Dermatology Dermatology Made Easy is based on the hugely popular DermNet New Zealand website and is designed to help GPs, medical students and dermatologists diagnose skin conditions with confidence. The book starts by providing a series of comprehensive tables, complete with over 500 thumbnail photos, to aid diagnosis according to symptoms, morphology, or body site. Once you have narrowed down the diagnosis, cross-references then guide you to more detailed descriptions, and another 700 photographs, covering: common infections inflammatory rashes non-inflammatory conditions skin lesions Every section provides consistent information on the disorder: who gets it and what causes it? what are the clinical features and does it cause any complications? how do you diagnose it? how do you treat it and how long does it take to resolve? The book concludes with a comprehensive section on further investigations and treatment options. Dermatology Made Easy combines the essential focus of the Made Easy book series with the authority and knowledge base of DermNet New Zealand’s unparalleled resources. Printed in full colour throughout.



Morning Glory on the Vine

Author : Joni Mitchell

Publisher : Dey Street Books

Page : 137 pages

File Size : 23,23 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Art

ISBN : 0358181720

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A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted one hundred copies of Morning Glory on the Vine as a holiday gift for her closest friends. For this stunningly beautiful book, Joni hand-wrote an exquisite selection of her own lyrics and poems and illustrated them with more than thirty of her original pictures. Handcrafted, signed, and numbered in Los Angeles, the existing copies of this labor of love have rarely been seen in the past half-century. Now, during Joni's seventy-fifth birthday year, Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings will be widely available for the first time. In this faithfully reproduced edition, Joni's best-loved lyrics and poems spill across the pages in her own elegant script. The lively, full-color drawings depict a superb array of landscapes, still lifes, portraits of friends, self-portraits, innovative abstractions, and more. All the artwork from the original book is included, along with several additional pictures that Joni drew of her friends from the same period. Finally, the refreshed volume features an original introduction written by Joni. Morning Glory on the Vine is a gorgeous and intimate keepsake and an invitation to explore anew the dazzling, visionary world of Joni Mitchell.