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9/24/2020 16:54:19

More thoughts on the wens removed a week ago. I was ready to leave if they didn't agree to examine the red material (bacteria) inside so we'd have a microphotograph of Borrelia. I knew, of course, that they'd likely blow me off, but I couldn't think of a better plan, so on their word I let them do it. Now, when the Thai doctor did it in 2008, he cut each out and showed it to me within a minute or two, whole procedure ten minutes maybe. We both studied the red, filamentous material inside the ball of fat and talked about what it could be. At the time I hadn't realized these were Borrelia colonies from tick bites.

What this doctor did was strive to pull them out with a forceps. I clocked the procedure since it was so arduous (me with a bad cold). Two and a half hours and a wastebasket full of bloody tissues. To me it seemed that at last half of that time was spent yanking on the cysts, each about the size of a pea. Two things amazed me. One was that he didn't just cut the damn things out as I'd asked, the other that any human tissue could be that resilient. It extra confirmed what I already knew by then, that the wens were made of the same elastic, evil stuff as the extensive disease in my sinuses and everywhere throughout the body. What he said to me, though, was very interesting. He noted that the material holding the wens was very tough and deeply embedded, but also remarked that the interior was "fragile." He showed me one once he got it out and it was no more than a quarter the original size. So, it was pretty obvious to me that yanking and yanking on the damn thing had caused most of the contents to leak out. The most interesting of all was his surprise at the red rings that formed around the wens, exactly the same thing seen in Lyme infections from tick bites. I don't think it was a coincidence. What must have happened is that persistent pulling on the wen broke up the Borrelia colony inside and the red material then diffused outward to show a red ring just as happens with new Lyme infections.

So, we know there wasn't much left for the pathologist to see, but neither did he acknowledge my written request for microscopic examination or explain any procedure behind his conclusion that there was no visible sign of infection. They don't have Lyme in Thailand so it's hard to accuse anyone of deliberate sabotage, but they are terribly busy and not always very responsive. While I didn't get photos of the bacteria, the doctor inadvertently gave important confirmation that it was the part of the disease and showed identical symptoms to tick bites that transmit Lyme even after fifty six years.

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