Here are some gorgeous macro photos of the lesions that KM took w/ his Canon D5 and a macro lens. I needed to send them to my naturopath so he could evaluate what to do about them. His solution: Thuja orally, and vinegar on the lesions. I haven’t been able to locate the Thuja yet, but the vinegar seems to help. My eyes are worse, though. Skin falling off, and open raw skin at the folds.
So every few days my side effects change. For a while it was aches and pains, then we seemed to get that under control. Then it was the pins and needles, which are still my number one most awful side effect (bad episodes each of the last three days). But I have it more under control. For a while I couldn’t eat because of the lesions on my tongue, and for two days I even had trouble talking it was so bad. Then it was the lesions on my hands, which are easing off (i put vinegar on them). And the “sore bottom” which I soak as often as i can.
The latest are my eyes. The skin around my eyes is simply falling off. Flaking off in painful chunks. I have cuts/lesions at the creases and folds below my eyes. And crazy white flaky skin. It hurts, and putting moisturizer on it seems to make it hurt more (temporarily) and not really solve the problem. But if any of this is a pattern to be repeated, the eyes will be better by next week, and it will be something new.
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So my body is falling apart. Â I’ll spare you the ones of the holes and lesions on my tongue (no they are not piercings), and the other ones on my unspeakables. Â But here are a sampling.
The good news for today is that I didn’t have any pins and needles. I stayed inside most of the day. The book is done. And I didn’t do any public speaking. And I was chill, and chilled.
The bad news is that my body continues to fall apart. I woke up with a swollen something-or-other in my right cheek. It is right above the back of my jawbone. It feels like it is 10mm in diameter, but its probably smaller. I have a corresponding lesion on my right side of my tongue.  I think I have a lesion in my left nostril.
And most humiliatingly, I have a large mole on my ass that is raw all of a sudden. It hurts really bad. It seems almost like it is bleeding or something. My Dermatologist has checked it several times and cleared it each time. So I’m not worried that it is a Melanoma. But it hurts, and I worry about my ability to heal. And the worst part is that I can’t see it. I tried taking pictures, but that didn’t really work. Try aiming a point and shoot camera in macro mode at your ass really close up and try to get results… it doesn’t work very well!