Vitiligo has an upside

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Vitiligo Has An Upside ...

"Michael Jackson Disease" - A Bulwark Against the Bill Gates of Hell?

This might seem like it's all about me, but it's about a lot of other people as well.

I'm suddenly rather pleased to be a victim of generalized vitiligo because, not being a Black person, it has progressed widely enough to be hardly noticeable -- I'm just seen as very fair-skinned (hence rather photophobic) -- and because it is classed as an "autoimmune disease" it may well help me avoid the vaccine from the Bill Gates of Hell.

God knows I've been avoiding the medical profession itself for more than a couple of decades. Nobody had to tell me I was a potential casualty of medical error:

RadioCanadaInt: In Canada, medical errors account for 28,000 deaths yearly ...

• ... according to the Canadian Patient Safety Institute which campaigns to reduce that number. Errors are said to be the third leading cause of death in Canada after cancer and heart disease, and every minute and 18 seconds someone is injured from unintended harm.

And now they're going to be erring bigtime with hi-tech immunology.

• “These are alarming statistics,” saws Chris Power, CEO of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute. “If we look at other countries around the world, we’re seeing similar or worse rates of harm. This is an epidemic around the world.”

Yet they want us to live in fear of a flu the very name of which nobody is certain? Relying on the pronouncements of continually miss-speaking whackos like "Dr". Fauci?

ConTreeHouse: Fauci Love Letters to Hillary Clinton 

Is Fauci the reason that journalist Julian Assange is currently being tried to death in a manner reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition? Did they see the J and the A in his name and immediately think of Joan of Arc?

Dr. Fauci is Lying or He's Stupid (YouTube)

Fauci Set the Standard for Mask Wearing (YYC)

Since 1968, I've been living in fear of most people with M.D. attached to their names, beginning with a crazy dermatologist who wanted to diagnose me as having "King George Disease"(Porphyria) YouTube MOVIE, and who was convinced he had it himself because apparently King George was sensitive to sunlight, and so was the derm guy, and of course, by this time, so was I, but only as the result of the beginning signs of Vitiligo, plus a mysterious pain in my right side (which later turned out to be caused by a weak back muscle) and not from anything remotely resembling Porphyria.

UMassMED: 

• Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease that results in the appearance of white spots on the skin. It affects 0.5-2% of the population (about 1/100 people) regardless of race and gender, and can be psychologically devastating for vitiligo patients due to its disfiguring appearance.

These doctors say that Vitiligo has "an exciting future".  It sure hasn't had an exciting past.

The crazy doctor's choice of treatment? -- bleeding me into severe anaemia to supposedly reduce the number of "porphyrins" in my blood.  I can be thankful that he didn't use leeches, but a green intern accidentally caused my blood to flow out onto the hospital floor instead of into a bag for proper analysis. And that just barely scratches the surface of my sad past experiences with the medical profession.

What saved me from a final diagnosis of King George III disease was the fact that the King had always peed blue, and I never did. Much later, it was deduced that the King's urine was blue because his doctor had given him medicine containing gentian!

It wasn't until 1996 that I said my last goodbye to what seemed to me to be a hapless medical profession. You can read about that epiphany here.

Since then, however, all sorts of "treatments" have been devised for the possible cure of Vitiligo, but I doubt that anybody who has ever tried any of them has suffered any less than those who have just plain lived with it, especially Black people. For me, it was just mildly embarrassing.  I remember a young boy asking me what was the matter with my skin and I said, "I'm disappearing; appreciate me while I'm here".

But Michael Jackson suffered in spades: CBS Illustrated Guide to Pigmentation Disorder

And died at the hands of a doctor who was not in his right mind:
ABCNews: Michael Jackson's Doctor Guilty

Oh god, I'll never forget the time I first heard Michael singing "Ben". Like most striking moments, I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing at the time. But he had a crazy father, and a crazy doctor, and appears to have been driven crazy himself, no doubt in the name of "for your own good".

Here he is singing "I'll Be There". The harmonies alone will thrill you, let alone the heart wrenching lyrics. 

I've long suspected fluoridated water of being the cause of Vitiligo. Mine began to appear shortly after moving to a fluoridated community.  It's been surmised that the condition is familial, and sure enough I have an uncle, just five years older than I, who has it as well -- but who also lives in a long-time fluoridated community in Western Canada.

Why it doesn't affect everybody is a mystery, though enough people have been affected to make it a source of dedicated interest.

But now I'm thinking my autoimmune problems (both Vitiligo and Fibromyalgia) may have been a kind of god-send for me because it seems it may be the reason I've never had flu (or even any of the childhood diseases) -- and, because I may be able to get exemption from the dreaded vaccine from The Gates of Hell.

NewScientist:19/7/16 Autoimmune diseases may be side effect of a strong immune system 

• For the first time, we have evidence that people who are more susceptible to disorders of this kind are that way because their immune system is better equipped to combat dangerous infections, enabling them to live longer.

I can also use my Fibromyalgia as a backup if need be, though, strictly speaking, it isn't classed as an autoimmune disease by some authorities.

LifeEnthusiast.com: Fluoride A Cause of Fibromyalgia

• ... only a handful of the world’s leading experts on fluoride toxicity have long been aware that the symptoms of the emerging condition known as “fibromyalgia” exactly match those of the most severe form of fluoride poisoning. This little known fact was quietly highlighted by the intense focus on potential Sarin gas exposure for the nearly 200,000 veterans of the first Gulf War who have quietly become the largest single group to ever develop fibromyalgia.

From The Free Library: Fibromyalgia Syndrome and Vitiligo: A Novel Association.

• ... in this study, we aimed to assess the relationship between FMS and vitiligo in Iraqi patients and to evaluate the predictors of this relationship, if present.

Very few people have just one autoimmune condition, and for the first time I'm seeing this as a potential advantage rather than a painful drawback.  I intend to "seize the main chance" and prove "It's a great life if you don't weaken": John Buchanan

More from John Buchanan: “Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late” ― 1999, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas 

Image Below: Norman Rockwell no longer quite as heartwarming...