Hi
Everybody,
Over the
last five years, I get occasional remarks, to the effect that my face is a dark
gray, or bluish color. I’m recalling
that within the last year, or so, there have been comments on the list,
indicating reversal of this condition, through some sort of laser
treatment. Can someone can tell me more
about this, so that I know what to expect? I've written the list about this
before, but now I'm actually in a position to do the treatment.
I’m now
working in East Africa, in Kenya, and I’ve recently located a dermatologist
here,
who does treatment with a laser. I’ve
made an appointment with him, first in his undertaking a biopsy. He’s told me
that thereafter, in the event
that this does prove to be argyria, he’ll need to do three sessions of the
treatment,
over something like four to six weeks.
I’m a
little concerned, however, when he tells me that this treatment is not
guaranteed to work. I suppose that I’m
ready to accept this possibility, however, it occurs to me to ask whether
anybody on the list can tell me a bit about what to expect? For example, how
does the laser treatment work? I’d ask other questions, but I feel as if I’m
in the dark.
There’s
also an issue, that when I look in the mirror, I don’t see the problem. I do
know that it’s there, however, because
people sometimes remark about this, out of the blue (Pun?). Otherwise, I do
feel that to some extent,
because I work with silver, my having argyria is an occupational hazard.
As a
ceramic designer, I’ve developed several types of pottery water filters, and
we’ve
been able to get five thousand of these into the shantytowns of Nairobi. There
are many millions here, who are daily
drinking pathogen contaminated water, and this is literally killing the small
children, especially. I want to believe that within a few
years, we can get clean water to everyone.
Reid
Harvey
