What a horror story! I am so sorry and do hope you find the solution you need. I am glad that your loving family is there for you, and I wish you well. Sincerely, Penny
On 4/28/17, Mário Gabriel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > dear Zoe, sorry to have mispronounced your name. > I am here to pray for you, and believe that you will be cured in the > name of God and of all who pray for you. > Trust in God and in all the brothers who are praying for you and your > family. > God is merciful, and will cleanse you from this damn infestation. > God bless you, dear sister. > > > Às 11:48 de 28/04/2017, Mário Gabriel escreveu: >> >> >> >> my God! >> My dear friend, I am now sitting here on my desk crying for you and >> the tears are running down my face. >> I have no more words to describe what I feel for you at this moment ... >> I'm going to pray for you right now and ask God to get you out of >> these damn bugs. >> God bless you, and your family. >> >> dear Zoi. >> Have courage and trust our prayers. >> >> >> Às 20:35 de 27/04/2017, zoe fiogkos escreveu: >>> Hi my fellow elf's and Mrs. Clause. Hope you are all doing ok. >>> Unfortunately >>> I have no choice, I have to unsubscribe from all the email groups I >>> belong >>> to. I haven't been able to check email and be online for a long time >>> and it >>> seems I will be out of things for much longer. When I turned on my >>> laptop >>> this morning I had over fifteen thousand emails waiting for me. Given my >>> situation I just can't keep up anymore. I pray that one day I recover >>> and >>> are able to join my favourite groups again. My family is against me >>> telling >>> people what's wrong but I feel in writing this email I'm also helping >>> myself >>> to come to grips with my illness. I will remain subscribed a few more >>> days >>> so that I may read your thoughts in hopes that your words might help >>> me to >>> continue to fight this awful illness. >>> Again I'm sorry for the off topic post and I hope the moderators can >>> find it >>> in their hearts to forgive me, and if one day I recover I hope they will >>> remember me and let me back in to my favourite mailing groups. >>> Before I tell you all my story, I would like to thank each and every >>> one of >>> you for either your help on various topics, or your individual >>> private help >>> through the phone or private email, or your messages of getting to >>> know me, >>> or your words of encouragement when it came to the mac, jaws, NVDA, >>> windows >>> 10, household tips, cooking instructions, prayers, and harmless chit >>> chat. >>> If I offended anyone in anyway, or gave anyone a hard time please >>> forgive >>> me. >>> Here's my unbelievable story. >>> Last August I was doing a lot of gardening mostly weeding to be >>> honest. I >>> was on my hands and knees from morning to night pulling weeds and >>> keeping my >>> property clean. I am grateful to the good Lord for blessing me to >>> have such >>> a lovely property but it's old and no one ever took care of the >>> garden. The >>> result is weeds on top of my weeds. Chemicals are forbidden here in >>> Canada, >>> and I haven't been able to find an affordable solution, so I'm left with >>> fighting weeds on a daily bases. I am a sun lover and adore summer, last >>> summer was the first time in my life that I couldn't wait for summer >>> to be >>> over. I was exhausted and I have nothing to remember for my 2016 summer >>> except pulling weeds all most every day for the whole entire spring, >>> summer, >>> and fall. >>> In August I noticed 2 mosquito bites on my elbow and 2 on my inner left >>> thigh. The bites were very itchy just like normal mosquito bites, so I >>> didn't think anything of it. I also noticed my nails were black >>> underneath. >>> I thought it was dirt from the garden, to spite that I was showering >>> every >>> single day and cleaning my nails, the next morning they would be filthy >>> again. Again I thought it strange but I justified it in my head as to >>> much >>> gardening. In August my husband and I visited a few local restaurants >>> and >>> spent two nights in a motel in north Ontario for a weekend away. >>> I wanted to try my hand at building a small business doing something >>> I love >>> so I decided to start making my own bracelets and selling them online. I >>> have always loved costume jewellery and to spite my vision problems, >>> I have >>> been taught that there is nothing I can't do. My mother always said >>> "try and >>> if you fail, oh well, life goes on. Try different things until you find >>> something you are good at and you love doing." So I talked to my mom and >>> husband and they both backed me as they always do. My mother who >>> adores me >>> spent over six thousand dollars to buy my supplies, and encouraged me >>> on a >>> daily bases. My husband turned half of my computer room into a work >>> space >>> with special lighting, magnifying contraptions, shelving, etc. My >>> husband >>> and mom bought me bins with dividers and I spent months sorting beads >>> and >>> other supplies by color, size, and type. I got help from someone on >>> one of >>> these mailing lists and he helped me to create labels to label all these >>> bins. Everything was going great, or so I thought. >>> I spent hours teaching myself how to make these beautiful bracelets, I >>> finally got the hang of it after much trial and error and I was ready >>> to go. >>> I registered on etsy.com and opened up a Facebook small business page. I >>> bought more supplies to host a launching party with food, drinks, and >>> gifts >>> for my guests to introduce them to my creations and my new business. >>> While >>> all this was happening, I noticed in October that the mosquito bites >>> were >>> not going away. They had become scabby and even more itchier. >>> I showed my mom and she justified it just like I had done in my mind. >>> Due to >>> my type two diabetes they were taking a long time to heal as many >>> things do >>> when you have diabetes. >>> At the beginning of November as some of you already know, I started >>> to have >>> problems with my right eye. Long story short for those who don't know, I >>> suffer from a cornea disease. My cornea was trying to break. This had >>> happened before but this time it was persistent and my doctor had to try >>> different medications to stop the cornea from breaking. While I was >>> battling >>> this cornea problem I noticed my right arm becoming very itchy and >>> the two >>> mosquito bites had now become 10. I was so worried about my eye that >>> I put >>> this arm problem aside until I solve this cornea issue. I thought I was >>> having an allergic reaction to something. >>> By the beginning of December my whole entire arm from the elbow down was >>> covered in scabby itchy pimples. I thought oh my God what's going on? I >>> changed my soap, detergent, and started to watch what I was eating. >>> Due to >>> the cornea problem and the Christmas holidays I didn't get to my family >>> doctor until January. >>> By January both my arms were covered in these strange itchy things. The >>> doctor looked at my arms and fingers and said oh don't worry it's >>> nothing, >>> you have scabies. >>> Pardon my language but I answered what the hell is scabies? >>> She said it's a bug sometimes humans get. Usually from sex but since >>> your >>> husband doesn't have it and you didn't cheat on him you got it from the >>> motel you stayed at, or from a shopping mall, or someone hugged you >>> who has >>> it. She continued on to say it will be gone in a few weeks. She said >>> it's >>> contagious but since you will be treating yourself in the next week >>> don't >>> worry about it. >>> She gave me a lotion with pesticide in it and told me to apply it to my >>> whole body from the knec down before bedtime and shower after 12 >>> hours in >>> the morning. She said do not apply to face and scalp because scabies >>> don't >>> go there and it's not safe. >>> She said repeat this process one week later. During this week of >>> treatment >>> vacuum the house every day and wash linens and all clothing warn >>> every day. >>> >>> So off I went astonished at what I had heard. Where the heck did I get >>> something like this. Oh well I thought it will soon be over, or so I >>> believed. >>> On my way to the pharmacy to pick up the lotion full of embarrassment >>> I kept >>> on thinking about the doctor's words when she said to me, "zoe I know >>> you >>> are a clean person and your house is clean but this illness has >>> nothing to >>> do with cleanliness, rich, or pour. Anyone can contract this disease. >>> She continued on to say because you are type 2 diabetic your immune >>> system >>> is compromised and so it's easier for you to catch something like >>> this. The >>> scabby pimples on your arms, are the bugs laying eggs and leaving their >>> pheacies behind. The body has an allergic reaction to those things. >>> I cried >>> all the way to the pharmacy. I went home and began the treatment as the >>> doctor had described. My husband and I slept in separate bedrooms and >>> I kept >>> away from my mom just encase. >>> I put my bracelet business on hold thinking it's only a few weeks. I >>> laundered every day running my clothing through the dryer three times to >>> make sure I kill everything that could be on my clothing. >>> I got depressed but my family reminded me of everything the doctor >>> told me >>> and I was consoled and thought to myself what am I crying about this >>> will be >>> over soon. >>> Boy was I wrong. >>> One week later when I was finished the treatment I was still itchy >>> and the >>> scabs were still there. I called the doctor and she confirmed what I had >>> read online that the body would slowly extract the pheacies and eggs and >>> eventually the itchiness would go away, it would take about six weeks >>> for >>> everything to return to normal. By the way by mid-January I could no >>> longer >>> sleep, the itchiness would keep me up all night itching, burning and >>> crying >>> from pain and sleeplessness. >>> During January I attended the funeral of a beloved older man who had >>> passed >>> away suddenly and I had visited his widow and also I visited a 96 >>> year old >>> woman who I have known since I was born, who is like a grandma to me, >>> not to >>> mention the hospital visits for my cornea, the Christmas parties and >>> services in my church. I thought my God I hope no one caught this >>> from me >>> and at the thought I was devastated. My family consoled me saying Zoe >>> you >>> didn't know what it was, it's not your fault. >>> During the six week period after the treatment I decided to take >>> precautions >>> just encase. I stopped going to church, visiting people, I didn't allow >>> anyone to come over, I didn't do daily things like banking, grocery >>> shopping, etc. I continued to vacuum every day, cleaned the house >>> diligently, and of course laundry every single day. My husband and I >>> stayed >>> away from each other accept for the occasional peck on the lips quickly. >>> I was miserable but this would soon be over. >>> I began to make Easter plans, my bracelet launching party, plans, and >>> planned for my step daughters visit in the summer to meet our new >>> granddaughter. >>> Things were not as the doctor or I thought. >>> At the end of the six week mark, I was itchier than ever. The pimples >>> had >>> spread to other parts of my body and they were scabbier than ever. I >>> made a >>> doctor's appointment again and off I went. >>> She looked at my body and said "these are scabies I'm absolutely 100% >>> sure, >>> but if the medication didn't work, I don't know what else I can do >>> for you, >>> so I will send you to a specialist, a dermatologist." >>> In the next week after that disappointing appointment I began to feel >>> bugs >>> walking in my hair, nose, and ears. My sleep was next to nothing and it >>> started to show. My hair was down to my waist and I sat in the garage >>> and >>> cut it all off while my mother watched me and cried. >>> My husband went to the drug store and got me extra strength Benadryl >>> to help >>> with the itchiness and sleep. I began to take one every night to >>> knock me >>> out. I started to research my problem online. >>> What I read was not encouraging at all. >>> I began to read horror stories of people who had scabies and couldn't >>> get >>> rid of them because these bugs have become resistant to the medications >>> offered by doctors. Further I read stories of people who were >>> diagnosed with >>> delusional paratosis and some were even locked up in looney bins. I >>> thought >>> to myself, well don't believe everything you read on the internet. Since >>> general medicine couldn't help me and I had gotten the call from the >>> doctor's office that my dermatologist's appointment would not take place >>> until April 10th, I decided to try some home remedies to get rid of >>> them. >>> Here the hell began. >>> I read that diluted bleach in water would kill them. Not true, I smelled >>> like chlorine and about 5 bugs fell off me. >>> I read that 12 days of white vinegar on the body would kill them. I also >>> went to a natural pharmacy and they told me to shower with castile soap >>> every day and let the soap dry on me. When my body absorbed the >>> castile soap >>> then I should slather neem oil all over my body. >>> Neem oil smells like rotten peanuts and or diarrhea in my opinion. Every >>> night for the next 12 days I got in the shower, lathered the soap on me, >>> waited half an hour for it to dry, lathered neem oil on me from head >>> to tow, >>> wore tight clothing to bed, (tights, socks, turtle neck, full flannel >>> sheets, and a thick winter blanket), in the morning I showered with >>> extra >>> strength neem and rosemary soap. After the shower I applied coconut >>> oil to >>> my whole body and then applied vinegar 3 times a day to my whole entire >>> body. This was my life for the next 12 days. >>> Result, every day I would find 20 to 30 dead bugs on my body, so I >>> thought >>> great it's working. At the end of the 12 days my skin was badly >>> burned from >>> the vinegar. >>> Now I had hardly any hair and a burnt body and face. >>> I began to suffer greatly. My body was stinging and hurting and the bugs >>> were not gone. >>> I tried lice shampoo even though I read online that it doesn't work for >>> scabies. They were right it didn't work. I would pick them out with a >>> lice >>> comb every day until my scalp was so badly scratched I couldn't take it >>> anymore. I tried hydrogen peroxide, it did kill many but didn't get >>> rid of >>> them. >>> >>> I researched more online and found a study based in Australia that >>> said that >>> in a study done the only thing that killed resistant scabies was >>> clove oil. >>> They are in the process of developing medicine for scabies with its base >>> being clove oil. >>> I started reading up on people who had used clove oil and most swore >>> that >>> they got rid of them. There were a few people who said it didn't work >>> for >>> them. I went to the natural place and bought bottles of clove oil. >>> I diluted clove oil with coconut oil so that it doesn't burn me and >>> began to >>> apply to my whole body every day. >>> At night I still used the neem oil. >>> Didn't work, I further burned my body and the bugs were still there. >>> Starting to panic because I felt the bug activity getting worse, I >>> took a >>> bottle of castile soap and mixed it with neem oil and began to shower >>> with >>> that. Every time I applied this to my head and body I felt the bugs >>> jumping >>> for fear or joy, who knows with the dam things. >>> I began to leave this on me and waited for 20 minutes before I washed >>> off. >>> They would fall in the tub dead. I thought great something is finally >>> working. >>> After 2 weeks of this, the bugs were still not gone even though 40 50 >>> bugs >>> would fall in the shower every day, sometimes even twice a day. >>> During all of this I read that the only thing that will get rid of >>> them is >>> an old remedy of sulphur soap. I searched high and low in Toronto but >>> no one >>> seemed to have it. Finally I found it on amazon and ordered it along >>> with >>> sulphur cream and sulphur ointment. >>> Finally these things came and a new routine began. >>> Every morning I would shower with the castile neem oil mixture, I would >>> leave it on for 20 minutes and rinse off, then I would lather on the >>> sulphur >>> soap, leave it on for 20 minutes and rinse off. I would get out of the >>> shower and lather on the coconut oil. Thousands of bugs would come >>> out of my >>> skin. My mom and husband would wear gloves and pick them off my skin and >>> dispose of them safely. At night I would lather the neem oil all over >>> me and >>> slather on sulphur ointment on my head and sulphur cream on my face. >>> This continued for about 10 days. >>> The bug population on my skin diminished every day, but at the end of 10 >>> days my skin was blistering and drying so bad I began to have >>> horrible pain. >>> Every time I got in the shower I screamed of pain. I could again not >>> sleep >>> from the pain. >>> However the pimples were now nothing but faded scars, so I thought great >>> this is working so I said to myself clench your teeth and bear it if it >>> means these things would finally be gone. >>> I also found online a sight called earth clinic and they said to drink 1 >>> litre of distilled water mixed with 1/8 teaspoon of borox every day, >>> 5 days >>> on and 2 days off, also to supplement this by drinking half a >>> teaspoon of >>> natural baking soda mixed with half cup of distilled water morning and >>> night. They explained how this destroys a fungus in their gut and >>> doesn't >>> allow them to digest properly and will help to get rid of them if >>> they are >>> in your blood. >>> I also read that the world health organization says untreated people >>> with >>> scabies results in kidney failure, heart failure, and even death in some >>> cases. >>> Obviously with all of this information, pain, treatments, and >>> isolation I >>> began to cry from morning to night and started to suffer physically and >>> emotionally. >>> Bracelet business? What bracelet business. Friends? I couldn't see any >>> friends. Email and computers? Non-existent. >>> Easter was coming, for me the most important and biggest holiday of >>> my faith >>> and existence. I could not go to church, >>> I could not see my goddaughter to give her gifts for Easter. I could not >>> cook or make plans for Easter. I could not take communion. I began to >>> spend >>> my days when not treating in my garage sitting on a plastic chair >>> covered >>> with a plastic bag, swotting the bugs away and crying. With hardly >>> any sleep >>> it was taking its toll on me. I couldn't eat because I was afraid the >>> bugs >>> would fall into my food, I began to lose weight. >>> Even though the pimples were gone, and thousands of dead bugs would >>> come out >>> of my body, even though my skin was now badly damaged the bugs >>> persisted in >>> my scalp and face. >>> My husband wore a plastic bag over his body and with plastic gloves he >>> shaved my head and plucked my eye brows. >>> Now I was a worse looking freak then before. Bald, no eye brows, >>> dermatitis, >>> burnt skin, tired and it showed, and still with bugs. >>> Finally April 10th came and I was so excited to go to the >>> dermatologist and >>> finally get some help. >>> I wore a shower cap and gloves and went to the doctor making sure not to >>> touch anyone or anything for fear of spreading this awful thing to >>> any other >>> human being. >>> I told the doctor everything I have described to you guys, and then it >>> happened my worst fears came true. He looked at my scalp with glasses >>> and >>> examined my skin and said, "you don't have scabies, there are no >>> signs of >>> crusted pimples, it's all in your head." I responded doctor don't you >>> see >>> the scars on my body, I have topically treated for so long that the >>> pimples >>> are gone, but the bugs are still there." He said "no they are not you >>> have >>> delusional paratosis." My husband popped up and said doctor I have >>> seen the >>> bugs coming out of her body, we find them dead in the tub and on her >>> clothing. He answered you guys are nuts, and if there is bugs then >>> prove it >>> put them in a bottle and bring them to me, she has a bad case of >>> dermatitis >>> and she's nuts." >>> I was shocked and couldn't believe my ears, everything I had read on >>> the net >>> was true. >>> I went home and cried until my body could no longer produce any more >>> tears. >>> I contacted other scabie sufferers online and they told me it would >>> be hard >>> to find a doctor to help because they don't want to admit that the >>> meds they >>> give you don't work. Everyone told me that those who chose to take the >>> bottled bugs to the doctor got no results. The doctors refused to >>> examine >>> the bugs or send them for analysis and many of them were forcibly >>> locked up. >>> My family and I had a long conversation and came to the conclusion >>> that the >>> only thing that could help me was the home remedies and we would not >>> take >>> the chance of me being locked up with a diagnosis of delusional >>> paratosis. >>> By this time I could no longer do the sulphur treatment on a daily >>> bases for >>> now I was greatly suffering. I lessoned the sulphur showers to 1 >>> every three >>> days and still my skin was suffering. >>> I throughout my area rugs, laundry hampers, runners, old blankets, >>> computer >>> chairs, I spent no time in my house accept at night to go to bed on my >>> covered bed with heavy duty plastic bags. I wore a shower cap and >>> gloves at >>> night, but the shower cap caused broozes on my head. Easter came and >>> left, >>> and I didn't bake like I do every year, I didn't cook, I didn't go to >>> church, I didn't celebrate with my family, (even though they sent me >>> lots of >>> food and sweets), all I did was cry, swat bugs all day, and continued to >>> treat myself in hopes that this one day would be gone. >>> During all of this my mom who picked the bugs off me every day and >>> cried at >>> the sight of her only child suffering so much developed a lump in her >>> breast, (which we are waiting for results). >>> When she went to the doctor to have this lump checked out she told the >>> secretary what's going on. The secretary who is in her fourth year of >>> becoming a homeopath doctor suggested she try to help me. >>> Her teacher could help me if I could afford to pay her. The Canadian >>> government doesn't cover homeopathic medicine and I have no private >>> insurance, so I'm stuck with a kind hearted student who is paying for my >>> homeopath medicine and trying to help me. I know she's a student and I'm >>> kind of her gini pig but at this point I have no choice. I stopped >>> all home >>> remedy treatments and I'm following her instructions. >>> Tomorrow is one week since I started following her instructions. I >>> have had >>> one good night of sleep, I've hardly eaten anything in a week, The bug >>> activity has gotten worse, and I'm severely suffering. >>> Not to mention I have ten thousand dollars' worth of bracelet supplies >>> sitting in a room collecting dust, while my pour 70 year old mother is >>> trying to pay this debt off. My husband and I have maxed out our credit >>> cards on neem oil, clove oil, plastic bags, plastic gloves, sulphur >>> products, distilled water, vinegar, and anything else you can think >>> of. We >>> are barely making ends meet and we are afraid of losing our house and >>> still >>> looking and hoping for a cure. >>> >>> I don't know if this is going to work, I thought about killing myself >>> but my >>> faith in God is strong and that has kept me from taking action. I >>> pray to >>> the good Lord to take pity on me and grant me his mercies and >>> compassions >>> and heal me. >>> I pray that he guides this young student to find a solution to my >>> problem. >>> Even as I write this email the bugs are attacking me. It has taken me >>> all >>> day to write this email because I'm fighting with the bugs. I have to >>> stop >>> every other word to get them out of my nose, ears, and swot them off my >>> head. >>> By the way I collected some bugs in a bottle and the young student >>> looked at >>> them with a microscope and confirmed that I'm not crazy and these are >>> scabies. >>> Please everyone forgive me for this very long email and pray for me. >>> I don't know when I'll be back or even if I will ever be cured but I >>> wanted >>> everyone to know why I'm leaving my favourite mailing lists, and I >>> will miss >>> you all, I will miss reading your solutions to all problems related >>> to the >>> mac, PC, iPhone, etc. I will miss the delicious recipes amongst other >>> things. >>> I hope that if one day I am cured you will all accept me back and then I >>> will let you know how I got cured if you're interested. >>> Again my apologies to the list owners and moderators for the off >>> topic post >>> and long email. >>> May all of you be well and most importantly healthy. Without health >>> nothing >>> is of importance. >>> Tell your friends and families how much you love them because you >>> never know >>> what could happen to you. The worst horror movie or nightmare you >>> have ever >>> seen could come true like my case. >>> Thanks to those who took the time to read such a long email. >>> By the way one of the hardest things is not being able to hug your loved >>> ones. My husband has cried like a child because he can't hug or kiss >>> me. If >>> these bugs don't kill me, and the emotional and physical pain doesn't >>> kill >>> me I will emerge stronger and with heck of a tale to tell those who >>> want to >>> listen. Be well all from an isolated, suffering, but hopeful human being >>> somewhere in Toronto. >>> >>> Sincerely >>> Zoe >>> >>> >> > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. 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