Parasite Complications

[vikingr12]

Sludge, I look forward to every post. There are not many who can peek my interest and your postings do exactly that, aside from the ascerbic humor.
I am focused on e. coli mostly because I have had nearly every bacteria infestation there is, including salmonella, which almost killed me when I was a kid. So I have to be careful. My hands have eczema from working in surgery so long, washing my hands all the time and using chlorinated stuff. So I am very conscious of bugs.
As to testosterone and its relation to prostatic cancer --- one treatment is the removal of the testes that are part of the creation of testosterone. Marble balls are substituted so the patient has the look and feel of the real thing. But he's a gelding nonetheless.
I say if it gets to that point, I will eat a .45. Life has been enough of a drag without having to haul around marble balls. :eek:

 

[Spock]

So, I finally got in touch with my friend. He really crashed fast & hard into the abyss of the Beast!!!

After I showed him around the facility, he got very sick with the Beast and reported to the ER and then to the Pysch Ward at Walter Reed-Bethesda for a week or so. My assessment was he had no idea what was wrong and just blamed the parasite. Turns out it was PTSD and he just was so new to seeking treatment and acknowledging he was sick that he was just combining everything, mixing the parasite in with his other combat injuries. His primary issue was PTSD and we got him some help and kept in time to keep him from killing himself. The parasite was Blastocystis and, as some have noted, not really the issue, just a complication. He was very confused and sick and mixing everything together. I think that is why he really sought me out to get him help.

Regardless, should someone question parasites again I'll be much smarter on getting to the root of the problem. Thanks!

 

[Chin Strapped]

Poor guy. Atleast he is starting his journey, whether he is successful or not this time, he is on the road.

Spock, fogivve me if you have mentioned this before; what job do you do? Or what is your role at this recovery place? Sounds interesting.

 

[Spock]

Walter Reed-Bethesda (WRNMMC) is the new combined Nat'l Military Medical Center-- center in Washington DC. It is where I get medical treatment. I don't work there, I just know many other wounded warriors and am an advocate especially for those trying to find their way through the system or who don't know how to get started. It is all on my own time. Both facilities are in the news a lot and were combined recently to save budget. Walter Reed is the famous US Army hospital where wounded soldiers were brought to for trauma treatment and recovery. Bethesda was the Navy hospital where all US President's receive care while in office. Whenever politicians or celebs want to be seen as caring for wounded warriors this is normally where they go events to be seen in the media/press.

 

[Chin Strapped]

Oh right sorry mate. Good of you to help out, I am of a similar nature, I get enjoyment out of helping those in need. I'd love to make something like that my job one day. Good luck to the man who initiated the thread.

 

[Spock]

Thanks Dan, he's doing much better now. I'm trying to make it my job to help vets. Most people I know get great joy from helping others but many also, don't help themselves. Just a odd thing about us humans...

 

[Chin Strapped]

Even more so with those in the military, comes with the training I guess!

I'm close to the end of my social work degree, but I'd love to specialise in military something. First, I must stabilise myself ;)

 

[vikingr12]

Spock,

I think I might know who you are. Good show. Keep doing it.

 

[Sludge]

The good thing about Blastocystis is it usually clears up on it's own. I got really excited when I say that diagnosis, however, as awful as that sounds. I have been researching a treatment method for it and other protazoal infections. (Since I am playing limnologist/biologist for the ACE my research has become related to that work. Ya'll ought to see the revolting infection on my arm and face from working in the filthy Missouri River watershed this last month or so. Gross, but Cooool!) While there is no treatment currently, there is hope. I personally have been playing with extracts from a certain invasive species water plant that shows great promise against certain fungal, algal and protozoan infections. Don't go out eating handfuls of Eurasian Millfoil just yet, it appears the active products are destroyed by low pH of the digestive system and you can get horrible stuff from what lives on the surface of this pond weed...but there is hope.


On that note, Spock I suggest you use some military education benefits and take a college course in immunology. Personbally, I really dislike medical sciences, but I was lucky enough to take immunology, protozoology and human genetics from one of the preeminent doctors in the field. PTSD and related military illness make a metric shit tonne of scary sense when you have a basic understanding of how the body reacts to foreign invasion. The creepy part is Immunology mirrors standard tactical point defense....or perhaps the other way round...


Also, tell your buddy, I'm rooting for him/her.

 

[Spock]

Ya'll ought to see the revolting infection on my arm and face from working in the filthy Missouri River watershed this last month or so. Gross, but Cooool...

LOL! Is it possible you're having too much fun Sludge?

 

[Sludge]

LOL! Is it possible you're having too much fun Sludge?

Truthfully, I am already bored with this gig, no matter how cool it is. It finishes up in September thanks to sequestration (yeah, like many others, the gov'mnt shits all over the little guys and still manages not to save any money....), so I am already on the hunt for a new gig. Remind me to tell you guys about the rusty drum full of Massasauga Ratlesnakes I stepped through trying to get a damned water sample...

 

[Spock]

Good lord, what an adventure or...